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A Novel Cue-Induced Abdominal Reaction Analysis for Internet Gaming Disorder

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Individuals with Internet gaming disorder (IGD) frequently play online games to achieve satisfaction. Numerous signal processing questions regarding the negative consequences and characteristic respiration in a long-term sitting posture remain unanswered. This study recruited 50 individuals with high-risk and low-risk IGD (HIGD and LIGD); these participants were taught to perform a specific respiration during game-film stimuli. The instantaneous frequencies on abdominal movement (fDF) were calculated with ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD). The difference value (ΔfDF) between rest and stimulus statuses was calculated and found that HIGD showed ΔfDF values of 0.060 during positive stimuli and 0.055 during negative stimuli before the exercise but 0.020 and 0.016, respectively, after the exercise. However, the ΔfDF value for those with LIGD during negative stimuli before the exercise was 0.013, and it increased to 0.025 after the exercise. This is the first approach to IGD discrimination toward abdominal response with EEMD.

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This work was fully supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 107-2221-E-009-153). This manuscript was edited by Wallace Academic Editing.

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    Tzu-Chien Hsiao

  3. Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 University Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Tzu-Chien Hsiao

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Ji, HM., Hsiao, TC. A Novel Cue-Induced Abdominal Reaction Analysis for Internet Gaming Disorder. J Med Syst 43, 94 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-019-1221-9

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