Pupillary Dynamics Toolbox
Our Goal
What does the Toolbox do?
The aim of this project is to create a software toolbox for clinical workers or researchers to aid in the detection of potential cases of depression and potentially other socio-psychological disorders such that individuals may be directed to specialists for proper diagnosis and treatment.
Background
Why Pupillary Dynamics
Perceiving and interpreting emotional signals is fundamental in social communication. The pupillary response (PR) to a stimuli has been observed to change based on the emotional content of said stimuli, making it of considerable interest to predict emotional state.
PR is mainly regulated by the autonomic nervous system and therefore is involuntary, allowing it to be a valuable source for objective and non-invasive mental state determination. PR is conducted via the optic and oculomotor nerve and mediated by the autonomic nervous system, which in turn divides into the sympathetic pathway and the parasympathetic pathway.