Paper Info
Title
Eustress or distress: an empirical study of perceived stress in everyday college life.
Abstract
Eustress is literally the \"good stress\" that associated with positive feelings and health benefits. Previous studies focused on general stress, where the concept of eustress has been overlooked. This paper presents a novel approach towards stress recognition using data collected from wearable sensors, smartphones, and computers. The main goal is to determine if behavioral factors can help differentiate eustress from another kind of stress. We conducted a natural experiment to collect user smartphone and computer usage, heart rate and survey data in situ. By correlation and principle component analysis, a set of features could then be constructed. The performance was evaluated under leave-one-subject-out cross-validation, where the combined behavioral and physiological features enabled us to achieve 84.85% accuracy for general stress, 71.33% one kind of eustress as an urge for better performance, and 57.34% for eustress as a state of better mood. This work provided an encouraging result as an initial study for measuring eustress.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2968219.2968309
UbiComp Adjunct
Keywords
Field
DocType
Eustress, Stress, mHealth, Ubiquitous Computing
Distress,Mood,Survey data collection,Computer science,Wearable computer,Computer security,Human–computer interaction,mHealth,Eustress,Applied psychology,Empirical research,Feeling
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chun-Tung Li110.38
Jiannong Cao25226425.12
Tim M. H. Li3192.34