TY - GEN
T1 - Physiological synchrony, stress and communication of paramedic trainees during emergency response training
AU - Misal, Vasundhara
AU - Akiri, Surely
AU - Taherzadeh, Sanaz
AU - McGowan, Hannah
AU - Williams, Gary
AU - Jenkins, J. Lee
AU - Mentis, Helena
AU - Kleinsmith, Andrea
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/10/25
Y1 - 2020/10/25
N2 - Paramedics play a critical role in society and face many high stress situations in their day-to-day work. Long-term unmanaged stress can result in mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Physiological synchrony - the unconscious, dynamic linking of physiological responses such as electrodermal activity (EDA) - have been linked to stress and team coordination. In this preliminary analysis, we examined the relationship between EDA synchrony, perceived stress and communication between paramedic trainee pairs during in-situ simulation training. Our initial results indicated a correlation between high physiological synchrony and social coordination and group processes. Moreover, communication between paramedic dyads was inversely related to physiological synchrony, i.e., communication increased during low synchrony segments of the interaction and decreased during high synchrony segments.
AB - Paramedics play a critical role in society and face many high stress situations in their day-to-day work. Long-term unmanaged stress can result in mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Physiological synchrony - the unconscious, dynamic linking of physiological responses such as electrodermal activity (EDA) - have been linked to stress and team coordination. In this preliminary analysis, we examined the relationship between EDA synchrony, perceived stress and communication between paramedic trainee pairs during in-situ simulation training. Our initial results indicated a correlation between high physiological synchrony and social coordination and group processes. Moreover, communication between paramedic dyads was inversely related to physiological synchrony, i.e., communication increased during low synchrony segments of the interaction and decreased during high synchrony segments.
KW - Communication
KW - Electrodermal activity
KW - Physiological synchrony
KW - Stress
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U2 - 10.1145/3395035.3425250
DO - 10.1145/3395035.3425250
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85099205133
T3 - ICMI 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
SP - 82
EP - 86
BT - ICMI 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2020
Y2 - 25 October 2020 through 29 October 2020
ER -