Exploring Low Cost Non-Contact Detection of Biosignals for HCI

Abstract

In an effort to make biosignal integration more accessible to explore for more HCI researchers, this paper presents our investigation of how well a standard, near ubiquitous webcam can support remote sensing of heart rate and respiration rate across skin tone ranges. The work contributes: how the webcam can be used for this purpose, its limitations, and how to mitigate these limitations affordably, including how the skin tone range affect the estimation results.