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Heart Rate

Submitted by JyL on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 3:16pm.

Janice Lee, Debbi Chin, Herman Marcia

Hypothesis: Audio and Visual Stimuli affect heartbeat.
Data:

Resting State: Janice - 83.6865 BPM
                       Debbi - 96.0241 BPM
                       Herman - 90.9707 BPM

Different stimuli: Janice - (Sad music video) 85.48 BPM
                          Debbi - (Chill music video) 93.449 BPM
                           Herman - (Funny music video) 94.48 BPM

From the data, one could conclude that audio and visual stimuli does in fact affect the heart rate of an individual. The reactions that audio and visual stimuli evoke is also a crucial factor in the heart rate. If given more time, we would research whether the combination of audio and visual stimuli has more affect on an individual than exposing the individual to audio stimuli and visual stimuli separately.

Although we conducted this test, it does not appear to be a reliable one in measuring heartrate amongst an array of individuals when exposed to different stimuli. Each individual reacts differently to different stimuli and one person's definition of something sad differs from another person's definition of something sad.

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