How to Use electrodermal in a Sentence

electrodermal

adjective
  • The electrodermal sensor, which requires the user to place their palm on the watchface for a reading, likewise can be tracked over time to measure stress levels.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The stainless steel ring on the outside of the watch is used to measure electrodermal activity in your body, which can indicate stress levels.
    Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The true specificity of the electrodermal test in predicting suicide and suicide attempts was poor (around 33%).
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2017
  • Speaking of stress, the Sense can measure your EDA – electrodermal activity – response, which is a fancy term that shows your body’s response to stress.
    Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The new $329 Fitbit Sense watch includes the ability to measure skin temperature and electrical activity on the skin called electrodermal activity, which can reveal signs of stress, along with heart rate and heart rhythm.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Key to Spotify’s work was the electrodermal activity sensor, which measures sweat and variations in the electroconductivity of the skin.
    Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 28 Feb. 2023
  • For instance, the Reflect Orb measures two physiological signs of stress — heart rate variability, which is the length of the pauses between different heartbeats, and electrodermal activity from the sweat glands on your fingers.
    Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Earlier this week, Fitbit launched a new $330 smartwatch called the Sense that includes a temperature sensor, an electrocardiogram app and an electrodermal activity sensor to detect the body’s response to stress.
    Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The Fitbit Luxe delivers daily stress scores by analyzing heart rate increases and changes, electrodermal responses, and skin temperature.
    Chaunie Brusie, Health, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The 2013 paper showed that electrodermal hyporeactivity testing, the technique behind EDOR®, is not much better than chance at predicting suicide or violent suicide attempt.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2018
  • This collection is paired with new Fitbit technology that detects electrodermal activity (EDA) responses–tiny electrical changes on your skin that can indicate a stress response.
    Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 15 June 2021
  • The device features an upgraded electrodermal activity, or EDA, sensor that continually watches for signs of stress.
    Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • According to studies measuring biometric eye-tracking, electrodermal response, and heart rate changes, Nielsen found that VR users had a 27% higher emotional engagement than content provided with the two dimensions of traditional video.
    Jay Samit, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2017
  • In addition to looking at your heartbeat and tracking your skin temperature, the watch has a tool for continuously measuring your electrodermal activity — basically, a scientific measure of the shifting sweat levels in your skin.
    Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In the original state, the technology featured a fingertip sensor that tracked heart rate, skin temperature and electrodermal activity (perspiration).
    Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The study participants were given an E4 wristband, made by the company Empatica, which records information on a wearer’s heart rate, skin temperature, movement, and electrodermal activity — a measure of electrical activity on the skin.
    Maddie Bender, STAT, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The high sensitivity and raw specificity of electrodermal hyporeactivity for suicide were confirmed...
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2014
  • The sector already utilizes physiological signals such as eye-tracking (to index attention) and electrodermal activity (to measure physiological arousal).
    Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2020

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