Toward Constructing a Real-time Social Anxiety Evaluation System: Exploring Effective Heart Rate Features

Social anxiety is a negative emotion which may impair the health of the heart and social functioning of an individual. This work analyzes the influence of social anxiety on the autonomic nerve control of the heart in two social exposure events: public speaking and thesis defending. In an experiment of public speaking, 59 human subjects were tested, and 11 conventional heartbeat measures and a heartbeat measure named the range of local Hurst...