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More and more technological advances offer new paradigms for training, allowing novel forms of teaching and learning to be devised. A widely accepted prediction is that computing will move to the background, weaving itself into the fabric of our everyday living spaces and projecting the human user into the foreground. This forecast turns out to be an opportunity for human-computer interaction as a way to monitor and assess the user’s stress levels during high-risk tasks. The main effects of stress are increased physiological arousal, somatic complaints, mood disturbances (anxiety, fear and anger) and diminished quality of working life (e.g. reduced job satisfaction). To mitigate these problems, it is necessary to detect stressful users and apply coping measures to manage stress. Human-computer interaction could be improved by having machines naturally monitor their users’ stress, in a non-invasive and non-intrusive way. This article discusses the development of a random forest classifier with the goal of enabling the assessment of high school students’ stress during academic exams, through the analysis of mouse behaviour and decision-making patterns.
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This work is part-funded by ERDF–European Regional Development Fund and by National Funds through the FCT–Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology within project NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-017832. The work of Filipe Gonçalves is supported by a FCT grant with the reference ICVS-BI-2016-005.
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Gonçalves, F., Carneiro, D., Pêgo, J., Novais, P. (2019). Monitoring Mental Stress Through Mouse Behaviour and Decision-Making Patterns. In: Novais, P., et al. Ambient Intelligence – Software and Applications –, 9th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence. ISAmI2018 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 806. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01746-0_5
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