Research Article
Detecting and Locating Stress in Urban Settings with ChillIn
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-031-86370-7_2, author={Daniel Namaki Ghaneh and Emanuele Respino and Gianmaria Saggini and Niccol\'{o} Settimelli and Maurizio Palmieri and Alessio Vecchio}, title={Detecting and Locating Stress in Urban Settings with ChillIn}, proceedings={Intelligent Transport Systems. 8th International Conference, INTSYS 2024, Pisa, Italy, December 5--6, 2024, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={INTSYS}, year={2025}, month={4}, keywords={urban stress wearable sensors well-being stress detection}, doi={10.1007/978-3-031-86370-7_2} }- Daniel Namaki Ghaneh
Emanuele Respino
Gianmaria Saggini
Niccolò Settimelli
Maurizio Palmieri
Alessio Vecchio
Year: 2025
Detecting and Locating Stress in Urban Settings with ChillIn
INTSYS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-86370-7_2
Abstract
In modern society, stress has become one of the main issues affecting both mental and physical health. The ability to detect stress can help people to improve their daily life. This work proposes ChillIn, a mobile application designed to track and localize stress in an urban environment. The application is based on a single wearable device and its sensors to track stress within urban environments, correlating the data acquired with geographic locations, and highlighting areas of a city that tend to induce stress. Preliminary tests show that ChillIn can help in understanding which are the urban areas where citizens are more stressed, for example to understand if traffic or transportation modes play a role from this point of view. ChillIn has a small impact on the battery duration of the wearable device and runs on a commercially available smartwatch.
