EEG SIGNAL ANALYSIS FOR HUMAN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

• Main Author: LOH, JEREMY GUO XIANG
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2017
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/22975/1/FYP_dissertation.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/22975/

Emotional intelligence plays an important role in human daily life. To date, most evaluation for emotional intelligences are being assessed through pen and paper based psychometric assessment and facial recognitions. These are subjective as the assessment performed are based on feelings or opinions of the participants to identify their level of emotional intelligence. This leads to the need of assessing emotional intelligence, brainwaves, and the correlation between them for objective based assessment. In this project, the aim is to investigate the correlation between emotional intelligence and human brainwaves. The integration between an Arduino and Mindflex headset is carried out to measure one’s brainwaves in respect to emotional intelligence. The system is utilized to observe and analyse patterns of emotional state of the participants while undertaking emotional Stroop test which is a test for the participants. They will be categorized into three groups which is average, higher than average and lower than average emotional intelligence. Subjects with higher level of emotional intelligence tend to have higher brainwave activity in the alpha and beta region. Brain activity increases with emotional intelligence.