StressBar: a system for stress information collection

Abstract

The causes of stress and how it affects our behaviors are generally not well understood. The stress research usually requires a large amount of data to analyze possible stress-related factors. The data collection process traditionally is time-consuming and cost-ineffective. To help medical researchers collect the stress information, we propose a tool named StressBar utilizing the powerful data collection capacity of smart phones. In this paper, we will show our design and implementation considerations of StressBar.