Personalising and crowdsourcing stress management in urban environments via s-Health

Abstract

In an attempt to make our cities more sustainable and resource efficient, we are transforming them into what we now call Smart Cities. This transformation is heavily dependent on ICT, where a huge network of interconnected sensors and other devices is deployed to monitor many aspects of urban life in real-time. Recently, Solanas et al. [1] introduced the concept of Smart Health (s-Health) in which the resources of a smart city are exploited to facilitate the provision of healthcare services to citizens. In this position paper we explore the potentials of s-Health in stress management, providing a conceptual framework which could be used not only to monitor the stress level, but to provide more advanced ICT intervention.