Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health. 4th International Symposium, MindCare 2014, Tokyo, Japan, May 8-9, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

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Workplace Stress Estimation from Physiological Indices in Real Situation

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-11564-1_2,
        author={Guillaume Lopez and Hirohito Ide and Masaki Shuzo and Shin’ichi Warisawa and Ichiro Yamada},
        title={Workplace Stress Estimation from Physiological Indices in Real Situation},
        proceedings={Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health. 4th International Symposium, MindCare 2014, Tokyo, Japan, May 8-9, 2014, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MINDCARE},
        year={2014},
        month={12},
        keywords={Multivariate analysis Stress monitoring Virtual healthcare Wearable sensors Workplace stress},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-11564-1_2}
    }
    
  • Guillaume Lopez
    Hirohito Ide
    Masaki Shuzo
    Shin’ichi Warisawa
    Ichiro Yamada
    Year: 2014
    Workplace Stress Estimation from Physiological Indices in Real Situation
    MINDCARE
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11564-1_2
Guillaume Lopez1,*, Hirohito Ide2,*, Masaki Shuzo3,*, Shin’ichi Warisawa2,*, Ichiro Yamada2,*
  • 1: College of Science and Technology, Aoyama Gakuin University
  • 2: School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
  • 3: Graduate School of Engineering, Kanagawa University
*Contact email: guillaume@it.aoyama.ac.jp, ide@lelab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp, shuzo@kanagawa-u.ac.jp, warisawa@mech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp, yamada@mech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Abstract

We have developed a new method to estimate no only stress occurrence, but also various workplace stress types. The method relies on adaptive selection of physiological indices integrated into an intelligent multi-steps discrimination process. Preliminary results revealed the method promising to improve estimation accuracy of workplace stress types. The study reported here, has two purposes: investigate if it is effectively possible to estimate stress type independently from individual differences, and validate the performances of proposed method in real situation. Four subjects that were not part of the preliminary study were assigned whether a tape dictation task or a presentation task as real situation tasks. The occurrence of various types of harmful stress could be correctly discriminated, confirming proposed method as an effective solution to estimate stress type regardless individual differences.