Project description
There are two avenues for this project:- Development of a next generation Heart Rate Monitor (HRM) for more accurate tracking of Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability. This project will look at improved signal acquisition and interfaces between the human and the HRM including fixation, sensing, number of channels, wireless communication and sampling frequency and event detection in the QRS. This is an open project and can be completed in stages.
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a measure of the inter-beat variability of the heart and has been linked to both physical and emotional stress which has implications for psychosocial hazard mitigation. Several opportunities for development exist:
- Flinders University has developed a single user HRV monitoring platform using the Polar H10 HRM. This project would see the development of a multi-agent monitoring platform that can simultaneously capture the HRV data from more than one person simultaneously
- HRV analysis is typically done using single time points from an intervention. It is possible to represent HRV as a continuous variable across continuous time interval and there are opportunities to use standard time series statistical analysis tools with this data. This project would explore the representation of HRV data across time and the application of new tools analysis.
Co-supervisors
A/Prof David Hobbs
Further information
Depending on branch of project:- Human Physiology
- Physiological Measurement
- Signal Analysis
Supervisors research focus
Prof Karen Reynolds
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