Smart technologies for long-term stress monitoring at work

Abstract

Due to the growing pace of life, stress became one of the major factors causing health problems. We have developed a framework for measuring stress in real-life conditions continuously and unobtrusively. In order to provide meaningful, useful and actionable information, we present stress information, derived from sensor measurements, in the context of person's activities. In this paper, we describe our framework, discuss how we address arising challenges and evaluate our approach on basis of the field studies we have conducted. The main results of the evaluation are that the results of long-term measurements of stress reveal people information about their behavioral patterns that they perceive as meaningful and useful, and trigger their ideas about behavioral changes necessary to achieve a better stress balance.