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Scaling Personal Stress Assistance in the Natural Environment

Scaling Personal Stress Assistance in the Natural Environment. Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis. Stress – A Quietly Growing Epidemic. Stress leads to or worsens diseases of slow accumulation Heart diseases Cancer Depression Yet, continues to be widespread and growing

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Scaling Personal Stress Assistance in the Natural Environment

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  1. Scaling Personal Stress Assistance in the Natural Environment Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis

  2. Stress – A Quietly Growing Epidemic • Stress leads to or worsens diseases of slow accumulation • Heart diseases • Cancer • Depression • Yet, continues to be widespread and growing • An urgency to help individuals reduce stress Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis

  3. Personal Stress Assistance • An app on the mobile phone that can help us make choices in daily life that reduce stress • Suggesting routes for commuting • Suggesting adaptations to driving habits • Recommending restaurants to eat, etc. • Encourage conscious stress management activities, e.g., • Meditation, yoga, exercise, light reading, etc. • Effective entertainment sources, relaxing conversations, etc. • And, suggest ways to help reduce stress of others we interact with (e.g., subordinates, customer service rep) • By showing the impact our actions (e.g., conversations, driving habits, etc.) have on the stress level of others Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis

  4. How to Scale Stress Assessment? • First step is to measure stress in the natural environment • Could use newly developed unobtrusively wearable sensors1 • And, software on the mobile phone2 that uses sensor measurements to infer stress and its mediators • But, this requires every person to wear sensors in their natural environment on a daily basis AutoSense: http://autosense.memphis.edu FieldStream: http://www.fieldstream.org ; K. Plarre, et. al., IPSN 2011 Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis

  5. Proposed Approach • Obtain a mapping between various daily activities and their impact on the stress level • For example, a user study could be conducted to determine the impact various traffic events have on the stress level (e.g., stop-go, traffic lights, left turns, potholes, etc.) • Then, the stress level of a road segment can be obtained from the frequency of stressful events that occur in them • Frequency of events could come from volunteer contributors who travel in that segment and later personalized to the owner • Similarly, stress mapping of driving actions (e.g., lane changes, braking patterns, phone calls, etc.) can be obtained • And, used to suggest changes in driving habits to reduce stress • Vision: A pervasive personal stress assistant Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis

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