Mobile Stress Treatment: The Interstress Approach (original) (raw)

Mobile Based Quantitative Measure of Stress (Preprint)

2017

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to show the validity of a mobile based application (“Serenita”) , as a tool for measuring stress level quantitatively. In this interactive app, the user places his finger on the mobile`s camera lens, through which information related to the user’s blood flow, heart rate, and heart rate variability (HRV) is extracted. Physiological signals are then being filtered and processed through a certain machine- algorithm, resulting in a quantitative estimation of the user’s stress level. Method: a mixed sex group of 50 volunteers were recruited to participate in a standardized laboratory experiment, where a psychosocial stress protocol (Trier Social Stress Test-TSST) was implemented. Throughout the course of the experiment, physiological stress response was measured using both salivary cortisol level and Serenita app, hence, using a within subject design. Results: Serenita algorithm was able to effectively detect changes in the participant`s estima...

Stress catcher application for mobile stress monitoring using questionnaire-based

Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019

Nowadays, stress has become the main reason to cause health problems. The human’s lifestyle has been increasing due to the fast development of technologies which help to improve performance and productivity indirectly increased the burden of human lifestyle. Many studies have done to identify the cause of stress and the effect of stress among university students. However, stress monitoring is not well mentioned in the previous works especially stress monitoring with questionnaire-based. Thus, this research tried to come out with a mobile application that fit to use to monitor the stress level by using a questionnaire. Mobile-D used to identify and develop the mobile application, namely as Stress Catcher. Mobile-D approach allows Test-driven development and it is suitable to use for mobile applications development. A prototype of Stress Catcher will function to prove the usefulness in human lifestyle.

Stress Monitoring Using Mobile Phone and Wearable Technology: Stress Catcher

Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 2017

Individuals nowadays suffered from stress due to high workload from works or studies. However, most of them could not identify their stress level or some of them did not even know that they were exposed to consideration amount of stress. A study was carried out in order to study the mobile application and wearable technology towards the development of stress monitoring application, namely as ‘Stress Catcher’. Through the study, stress-monitoring application was developed based on users’ heart beat rate and users’ perception was evaluated to see how people reacted towards the application. In order to develop the stress monitoring application, Mobile-D methodology was applied. After the study, the stress monitoring application was expected to measure users’ heart beat rate and compared to the heart rate from the signal of pulse that sent to the wearable device, which was Mio Alpha. Mobile application will display the stress level through the display screen. It was hope that Stress Cat...

Mind the Body!: Designing a Mobile Stress Management Application Encouraging Personal Reflection

Proceedings of the …, 2010

We have designed a stress management biofeedback mobile service for everyday use, aiding users to reflect on both positive and negative patterns in their behavior. To do so, we embarked on a complex multidisciplinary design journey, learning that: detrimental stress results from complex processes related to e.g. the subjective experience of being able to cope (or not) and can therefore not be measured and diagnosed solely as a bodily state. We learnt that it is difficult, sometimes impossible, to make a robust analysis of stress symptoms based on biosensors worn outside the laboratory environment they were designed for. We learnt that rather than trying to diagnose stress, it is better to mirror short-term stress reactions back to them, inviting their own interpretations and reflections. Finally, we identified several experiential qualities that such an interface should entail: ambiguity and openness to interpretation, interactive history of prior states, fluency and aliveness.

TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION Personalized Stress Management: Enabling Stress Monitoring

2016

Stress is one of the major triggers for many diseases. Improving stress balance is therefore an important prevention step. With advances in wearable sensors, it becomes possible to continuously monitor and analyse user’s behavior and arousal in an unobtrusive way. In this paper, we report on a case study in which users (21 teachers of a vocational school) were provided with wearable sen-sors and could view their arousal information put in the context of their life events during the period of four weeks using our software tool in an unsupervised setting. The goal was to evaluate user engagement and enabling of self-coaching abilities. Our results show that users actively explored their arousal data during the study. Further qualitative evaluation conducted with 15 of 21 users indi-cated that 12 of 15 users were able to learn about their stress patterns based on the information they obtained, but only 5 of them were able to come up with practical inter-ventions for improving their str...