Automatic Stress Detection in Working Environments From Smartphones' Accelerometer Data: A First Step

• Published in: IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 1053 - 1060
• Main Authors: Garcia-Ceja, Enrique, Osmani, Venet, Mayora, Oscar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.07.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Accelerometer; Accelerometers; Accelerometry - instrumentation; Accuracy; Adaptation models; Adult; ambient intelligence; automatic stress detection; Data models; Feature extraction; Female; Health; health monitoring; Human Activities - classification; Human behavior; Humans; Male; Monitoring, Physiologic - instrumentation; Monitoring, Physiologic - methods; Occupational Stress - diagnosis; Organizations; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted - instrumentation; Smart phones; Smartphone; Smartphones; Stress; Stresses; well-being smartphones; Working conditions

Increase in workload across many organizations and consequent increase in occupational stress are negatively affecting the health of the workforce. Measuring stress and other human psychological dynamics is difficult due to subjective nature of selfreporting and variability between and within indivi...