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Collective Stress Visualization Enabled by Smart Cushions for Office Chairs

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Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Smart Environments, Ecosystems, and Cities (HCII 2022)

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This paper explores the possibility of combining sensory data of multiple individuals into a collective visualization. Using a smart cushion for office chairs that collects several stress-related parameters, namely: heart rate, respiratory rate, and heart-rate variability, individuals’ data can be aggregated into a collective stress visualization. Three different visualizations are designed which abstractly, grouped and aggregated, and metaphorically visualize the collective stress. Additionally, two more visualizations are explored for the ‘new way of working’ during the COVID-19 epidemic, where people work remotely and from the office. Through expert and user interviews, these visualizations are evaluated. Additionally, there is researched on whether measured heart-rate variability can predict perceived stress levels. The results found an inversed correlation than hypothesized.

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Acknowledgment

We would like to thank all the participants of this study and Monroe Xue for her expert evaluation of the collective stress visualizations. This work was supported by the [Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China] under Grant [#LY20H090001].

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  1. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Matthijs Hoekstra, Biyong Zhang & Jun Hu

  2. Department of Neurology, Neuroscience Center, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China

    Pei-lin Lu

  3. Department of Electrocardiography, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China

    Tan Lyu

  4. BOBO Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Biyong Zhang

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Hoekstra, M., Lu, Pl., Lyu, T., Zhang, B., Hu, J. (2022). Collective Stress Visualization Enabled by Smart Cushions for Office Chairs. In: Streitz, N.A., Konomi, S. (eds) Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Smart Environments, Ecosystems, and Cities. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13325. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05463-1_20

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