MoodRadar-DAVID: Facilitating Insightful Care by Combining Caretaker Expertise and Real Time Insight in Electrodermal Fluctuations

Caretakers of people with severe mental handicaps report that the subjective interpretation of client behavior is difficult: Physical characteristics and behavioral signals are very heterogeneous. Identical client behavior is interpreted differently by different caretakers. Due to high workload (physically demanding chores for often more than one client at a time) the non-verbal signs of rising arousal levels are easy to overlook in real time situations. These behavioral signs are being labeled as important markers for the arousal build up leading up to outburst of challenging behaviors (e.g. aggressive acts) in retrospective video analysis.