Affective Keys: Towards Unobtrusive Stress Sensing of Smartphone Users

© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). This work explores the use of pressure-sensing to capture cues of the stress of smartphone users while typing. In a controlled laboratory study, 11 participants were asked to write about a recent stressful and relaxing experience in counterbalanced or...

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Main Authors: Exposito, Marc (Author), Hernandez Rivera, Javier (Author), Picard, Rosalind W. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021-11-17T15:12:05Z.
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Summary:© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). This work explores the use of pressure-sensing to capture cues of the stress of smartphone users while typing. In a controlled laboratory study, 11 participants were asked to write about a recent stressful and relaxing experience in counterbalanced order. Preliminary results show a significant positive correlation between the increase in typing pressure and self-reported stress across the two conditions (r=0.75, p=0.0081). In addition, we observed a significant negative correlation between the typing pressure baseline and the self-reported stress (r=-0.74, p=0.0093). These findings can help inform the development of less invasive methods for stress measurement.