iHeartrate: a heart rate controlled in-flight music recommendation system

Travel by air, especially long distance, the enclosed environment of the aircraft cabin causes discomfort and even stress to flight passengers. In this paper, we present a new heart rate controlled music recommendation system. Heart rate is used as a stress indicator. If the user is stressed and his/her heart rate is higher/lower than normal, the system recommends a user preferred calm/uplift music playlist to transfer the heart rate back to normal; An user experiment is done to validate our system. The experiment results not only show that our system keeps the user’s heart rate at normal but also show tha