Smartwatch based emotion recognition in Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by several motor and non-motor symptoms. These last, widely, concern affective disorders, among which, alexithymia has great impact on the amount and quality of social relationship and on caregiver well-being. Ubiquitous and quantitative monitoring of patients' emotional status may help to better understand affective disorders. This study proposes a preliminary approach to investigate the feasibility of emotion recognition in PD using physiological data collected by a smartwatch.