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In healthcare, detecting stress and enabling individuals to monitor their mental health and wellbeing is challenging. Advancements in wearable technology now enable continuous physiological data collection. This data can provide insights…

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Academic performance of any individual is dependent upon numerous aspects regarding the day to day life of the individual under consideration. Academic performance is measured in terms of the grade point average or GPA as it is called.…

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University students encounter various forms of stress during their academic journey, including cyclical stress associated with final exams. Supporting their well-being means helping them manage their stress levels. In this study, we used a…

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Recent works have demonstrated the effectiveness of machine learning (ML) techniques in detecting anxiety and stress using physiological signals, but it is unclear whether ML models are learning physiological features specific to stress. To…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Emily Zhou , Mohammad Soleymani , Maja J. Matarić

This research explores the fusion of graphology and artificial intelligence to quantify psychological stress levels in students by analyzing their handwritten examination scripts. By leveraging Optical Character Recognition and transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Abhijeet Kumar , Chetan Agarwal , Pronoy B. Neogi , Mayank Goswami

Stress can be seen as a physiological response to everyday emotional, mental and physical challenges. A long-term exposure to stressful situations can have negative health consequences, such as increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Aaqib Saeed , Stojan Trajanovski

User performance is crucial in interactive systems, capturing how effectively users engage with task execution. Prospectively predicting performance enables the timely identification of users struggling with task demands. While ocular and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yufei Cao , Penny Sweetser , Ziyu Chen , Xuanying Zhu

Student engagement plays a vital role in academic success with high engagement often linked to positive educational outcomes. Traditionally, student engagement is measured through self-reports, which are both labour-intensive and not…

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Test anxiety is beginning to be recognized as a significant factor affecting student performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, potentially contributing to gender inequity within these fields.…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-05-12 Alysa Malespina , Fargol Seifollahi , Chandralekha Singh

Increase in workload across many organisations and consequent increase in occupational stress is negatively affecting the health of the workforce. Measuring stress and other human psychological dynamics is difficult due to subjective nature…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Enrique Garcia-Ceja , Venet Osmani , Oscar Mayora

Acute stress alters cognitive performance, yet competing models make divergent predictions regarding the mechanisms, scope, and temporal dynamics of these effects. This large-scale randomized controlled trial tested predications from three…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-16 Lisa Weckesser , Charlotte Grosskopf , Benjamin Weber , Selen Soylu , Tanja Endrass , Robert Miller

With the rise of online eTextbooks and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), a huge amount of data has been collected related to students' learning. With the careful analysis of this data, educators can gain useful insights into the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Ahmed Abd Elrahman , Taysir Hassan A Soliman , Ahmed I. Taloba , Mohammed F. Farghally

Mental stress is a largely prevalent condition known to affect many people and could be a serious health concern. The quality of human life can be significantly improved if mental health is properly managed. Towards this, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Muhammad Majid , Aamir Arsalan , Syed Muhammad Anwar

Formal software testing education is important for building efficient QA professionals. Various aspects of quality assurance approaches are usually covered in courses for training software testing students. Automated Test Tools is one of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Susmita Haldar , Mary Pierce , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Research has proven that stress reduces quality of life and causes many diseases. For this reason, several researchers devised stress detection systems based on physiological parameters. However, these systems require that obtrusive sensors…

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To increase efficacy in traditional classroom courses as well as in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), automated systems supporting the instructor are needed. One important problem is to automatically detect students that are going to do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Yannick Meier , Jie Xu , Onur Atan , Mihaela van der Schaar

Physical symptoms caused by high stress commonly happen in our daily lives, leading to the importance of stress recognition systems. This study aims to improve stress classification by selecting appropriate features from Thermal-stress…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Xuyang Shen , Jo Plested , Tom Gedeon

Background: Studies have shown the potential adverse health effects, ranging from headaches to cardiovascular disease, associated with long-term negative emotions and chronic stress. Since many indicators of stress are imperceptible to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Joe Li , Peter Washington

There is an increasing consensus among re- searchers that making a computer emotionally intelligent with the ability to decode human affective states would allow a more meaningful and natural way of human-computer interactions (HCIs). One…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Maria S. Perez-Rosero , Behnaz Rezaei , Murat Akcakaya , Sarah Ostadabbas

Studying for physics exams can be difficult and stressful, especially during a student's introductory year in physics. For students who do not plan to major in physics, the desire to do well is based less on understanding concepts and more…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-12-22 Rahul Jilakara , David P. Waters