It turns out that the level of stress is revealed by how to move the mouse and operate the keyboard



A certain amount of stress is said to have the effect of increasing motivation and concentration, but excessive stress can adversely affect the body and mind. Researchers at

ETH Zurich have developed a model to detect workplace stress by determining how you type and move your computer mouse.

An interpretable machine learning approach to multimodal stress detection in a simulated office environment - ScienceDirect
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104299



Detecting stress in the office from how people type and click | ETH Zurich

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/04/detecting-stress-in-the-office-from-how-people-type-and-click.html



The Way You Use Your Mouse Could Reflect Your Level of Stress at Work : ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-way-you-use-your-mouse-could-reflect-your-level-of-stress-at-work

About one in three employees in Switzerland is believed to suffer from stress at work, making the identification of stressors at work important in terms of physical and mental health. I'm here.

Researchers at the ETH Zurich have used new data and machine learning techniques to develop a model that can determine how stressed people are just by how they type and use their mouse. .

In an experiment conducted by the research team on 90 participants, the participants performed work similar to office work, such as recording and analyzing data, but chat messages were sent to some participants. , to participate in interviews, and to interfere with their work. At the same time, all participants were recorded their mouse and keyboard movements and heart rate, and were asked periodically how they felt stressed.

As a result of the experiment, Mara Naegelin of the research team said, ``People who are stressed because their work is disturbed move the mouse pointer more often than participants who are not disturbed, but they do not click the desired button. It was found that people who were relaxed moved their pointers long distances and did not move them precisely, whereas relaxed people took shorter, more direct paths to reach their clicking destinations. , moving the pointer over time.'



In addition, people who are stressed in the office tend to make more mistakes while typing, and take frequent breaks while typing. It is reported that there were few types.

The heart rates of the participants in the group who were interrupted and those who were not interrupted during the task did not differ as much as in previous studies. The reason is that ``both participants in both groups are thought to have been given tasks that require a certain amount of stress, such as data recording and analysis,'' said Nagerin. It seems that the method of observing things is a better predictor of how stressed people are in an actual office environment than judging stress by heart rate.”

However, research team Jasmine Carr said, 'What we want is for employees to detect their own stress early, not for companies to create employee monitoring tools.' The research team is discussing what functions should be implemented in this model with general employees and ethicists from the perspective of confidentiality protection.



``Increased stress levels not only adversely affect the brain's ability to process information, but also affect exercise performance,'' Carr said. In the future, it is expected to prevent an early increase in stress in the workplace.

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