Subject: User Studies - Voice tests under stress From: "Flaithri.Neff" <Flaithri.Neff@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:10:33 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear list, A number of colleagues and I have been conducting some preliminary studies looking at participants' vocal characteristics and speech-flow while under simulated stress conditions. However, while we are using various auditory distractors and concurrent tasks in an attempt to induce stress, it is clear to us that we are not activating genuine stress in participants. Participants' speech-flow is significantly affected, but their feedback and our EEG data clearly tell us that participants are not genuinely stressed by the simulated conditions, just merely distracted. Can members advice us on how to induce genuine stress conditions that would register but that would also comply with ethical standards for studies such as this? Thank you in advance, Flaithri. This email, its content and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may be legally privileged and/or confidential. Access by any other party is unauthorised without the express written permission of the sender. If you have received this email in error you may not copy or use the contents, attachments or information in any way. Please destroy it and contact the sender via e-mail return. Internet communications are not secure unless protected using strong cryptography. This email has been prepared using information believed by the author to be reliable and accurate, and LIT make no warranty as to its accuracy or completeness. In particular the author does not accept responsibility for changes made to this email after it was sent. Any opinions expressed in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of LIT, or its affiliates.