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Over a similar period of time, personal physiological monitoring technologies have become commonplace with clinical grade assessment available across a range of parameters that have evidenced utility. The use of physiological data to assess concentration is an area of growing interest in eSports. However, body-worn devices, typically used for physiological data collection, may constitute a distraction and\/or discomfort for the subjects. To this end, in this work we devise a novel \u201cinvisible\u201d sensing approach, exploring new materials, and proposing a proof-of-concept data collection system in the form of a keyboard armrest and mouse. These enable measurements as an extension of the interaction with the computer. In order to evaluate the proposed approach, measurements were performed using our system and a gold standard device, involving 7 healthy subjects. A particularly advantageous characteristic of our setup is the use of conductive nappa leather, as it preserves the standard look and feel of the keyboard and mouse. According to the results obtained, this approach shows 3\u201315% signal loss, with a mean difference in heart rate between the reference and experimental device of \u22121.778 \u00b1 4.654 beats per minute (BPM); in terms of ECG waveform morphology, the best cases show a Pearson correlation coefficient above 0.99.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21227601","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,17]],"date-time":"2021-11-17T09:16:11Z","timestamp":1637140571000},"page":"7601","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Invisible ECG for High Throughput Screening in eSports"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7588-1349","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aline Santos","family":"Silva","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"FEUP\u2014Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, 4200-365 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6065-9358","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Miguel Velhote","family":"Correia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"INESC TEC\/FEUP\u2014Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, 4200-365 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6764-8432","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hugo Pl\u00e1cido","family":"Silva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IT\u2014Instituto de Telecomunica\u00e7\u00f5es, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1080\/00336297.2016.1144517","article-title":"Virtual(ly) athletes: Where esports fit within the definition of \u201csport\u201d","volume":"69","author":"Jenny","year":"2017","journal-title":"Quest"},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"12","article-title":"The world of games: Esports from wild west to mainstream","volume":"1","author":"Sachs","year":"2018","journal-title":"Equity Res."},{"key":"ref_3","unstructured":"Newzoo (2019). 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