Análisis de la frecuencia cardíaca para determinar el efecto de la estimulación musical en estudiantes de educación superior

Abstract

The following case study sought to understand the effect that music can have on the motivation and attention of higher education students (undergraduate university students who agreed to be volunteers), as well as to assess whether the care has a reaction to cardiac behavior and if this allows us to measure attention correctly. For its realization, a software capable of reading facial gestures called the Affectiva interface and the biometric data acquisition card Mysignal of the Libelium Company responsible for heart rate was used. The experiment consisted of three tests, which were to put the student to perform a memorization exercise of thirty characters (numbers, words and symbols) and was asked to remember the largest number and the order in which they were located. In the first test, no musical stimulus was applied in order to have a baseline analysis under normal conditions, as in the second and third tests musical stimuli were placed and pleasing sound stimuli of uncomfortable to the student. Finally, each test was scored to look at the performance against each stimulus, the heart rate obtained was saved to see what physiological response was present in the subject, and with the Affective interface, the emotional state was evaluated. The following article presents the study results, conclusions and suggestions.