Assessing Human Stress Through Smartphone Usage

Abstract

Stress occurs in a human being when they are faced with exigent situations in life. Assessing stress has been always challenging. Smartphones have become a part of everyone’s day-to-day activity in the present time. Considering human–smartphone interaction, sensing of stress in an individual can be assessed as today’s youth spends most of their time with smartphones. Taking this into consideration, a study is carried out in this paper on assessing stress of an individual based on their interaction with the smartphone. In this work, human–smartphone interaction features, like ‘swipe,’ ‘scroll,’ and ‘text input,’ are examined. Text input is incorporated by disabling the autocorrection and spelling checker features of the keyboard. Moreover, sensor data is used by Google activity recognition API to analyze the physical activity of the individual to assess the stress level.