Feasibility of Embedded Photoplethysmography Sensing in Short-Duration Tactile Interactions With Pocket-Sized Robots Using IMU- and Confidence-Based Filtering

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Title:Feasibility of Embedded Photoplethysmography Sensing in Short-Duration Tactile Interactions With Pocket-Sized Robots Using IMU- and Confidence-Based Filtering

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Abstract:Ubiquitous companion robots offer a promising avenue for immediate anxiety relief in children, yet their effectiveness relies on the ability to monitor physiological states continuously and unobtrusively. Current solutions often depend on external wearables, which impose usability barriers and limit the robot's autonomy. This paper investigates the integration of an embedded photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor directly into a pocket-sized companion robot, AffectaPocket, to enable self-contained heart rate monitoring during tactile interaction. We address the significant challenge of motion artifacts inherent in handheld usage by implementing a two-stage filtering pipeline that utilizes an onboard Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to reject high-variance segments and a confidence-based smoothing algorithm for recovery periods. We evaluated the system against a commonly used wrist worn sensor in a Within-Subjects Study with 26 participants. Our results demonstrate that the filtering strategy significantly reduced the Mean Absolute Percentage Error and achieved statistical equivalence to the ground truth measurements (p

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