What does your chair know about your stress level?

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 207-214

  Arnrich, Bert ^a   Setz, Cornelia ^a   La Marca, Roberto ^a,b   Tröster, Gerhard ^a   Ehlert, Ulrike ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body pressure distribution; Cognitive load; Self organizing maps; Stress

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE STATE; BODY PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITIVE LOADS; EARLY WARNING SIGNS; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; ONE STEP; PERSON-INDEPENDENT; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; PRESSURE DATA; STRESS LEVELS; STRESS RESPONSE; WORK-RELATED STRESS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN; COGNITION; FURNITURE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WORKPLACE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTURE; PRESSURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WORKPLACE;

EID: 77949745242     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2035498     Document Type: Article

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