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Meltdown Minder Research Vault

LLM-curated knowledge base. Maintained by OpenCode. Last updated: 2026-08-10.


Datasets

Dataset N Signals Tier Page
Goodwin AIC 20 EDA, HR, ACC 1 SFARI Base
REACT (Vanderbilt) 3 HR, EDA, ACC 1 Contact Vanderbilt
Imbiriba JAMA 2023 70 E4: EDA, BVP, ACC, TEMP 1 AIC study
WESAD (UCI) 15 E4 + chest: ECG, EDA, EMG, RESP, TEMP 1 UCI repo
TILES-2018 212 E4 + surveys 1 Scientific Data
Nurse Stress 15 E4: EDA, HR, TEMP 2 Dryad
CLAS 62 ECG, PPG, EDA, ACC 2 Contact authors
DAPPER 142 E4: EDA, BVP, ACC, TEMP 2 Scientific Data
SWELL-KW 25 HR, EDA, posture 2 Website
DEAP 32 EEG, GSR, pleth, TEMP 2 DEAP website
K-EmoCon 30 BVP, EDA, HR, SKT 2 Scientific Data
AffectiveROAD 10 E4 + Zephyr 2 Contact authors
FEEL Benchmark 19 ds EDA + PPG 3 arXiv

Key Papers

Paper Year Focus Page
Goodwin — Predicting aggression in youth with ASD 2019 Wearable biosensor → aggression prediction, AUC 0.84 Link
Imbiriba — Wearable biosensing to predict imminent aggression in ASD 2023 70 participants, 4 sites, 497 hrs Link
Khan — REACT: Real-time Early Agitation Capture Technology 2024 Agitation detection in IDD/ASD, F1 78.69% Link
Schmidt — WESAD: Wearable Stress and Affect Detection 2018 Introduced the WESAD dataset Link
Singh — FEEL: Framework for Emotion Evaluation 2026 19-dataset benchmark, 16 architectures Link
Stewart — Wearable Sensor Form Factors in ASD Youth 2026 40 ASD youth, 4 device types, adherence Link
Potter — Temporal Point Process modeling of aggression onset 2026 Hawkes processes for ASD aggression timing Link
Romani — Using Wearable Technology to Predict Severe Behavior 2026 Systematic review of 13 prediction studies Link
Ferina — Predicting Challenging Behaviors in ASD: Review 2025 Narrative review of prediction approaches Link

Physiology

Topic Page
Hot-blooded vs cold-blooded aggression physiology Link
Meltdown physiological signature (HR, HRV, EDA) Link
Rumble detection physiology Link
Autonomic dysregulation in ASD Link
Tantrum vs meltdown physiology Link

Blogs & Resources

Resource Page
WHOOP Developer Blog & API docs Link
WHOOP 5 BLE Protocol Link
Empatica E4 research resources Link

Repos & Tooling

Name Page
FEEL Benchmark code Link
WESAD baseline implementations Link

How to maintain

New entries follow this workflow: 1. Add a markdown file to the appropriate subdirectory 2. Link it in index.md under the correct table 3. Cross-link to related papers, datasets, and physiology pages