Multimodal detection of stress levels that increase academic performance

• Main Author: Ngo, Charlene Frances Santos
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Stress (Psychology); Academic achievement; Students—Psychology; Stress (Physiology); Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/6828
• Institution: De La Salle University

This research aims to build a model that identifies the stress levels correlated to the performance of the user in terms of academic work based on the user’s physiological state and throughput. Two experimental set ups were conducted. Non-invasive physiological signals that were used for this research were Blood Volume Pulse (BVP), Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), and Respiration Variability (RS). These signals underwent three signal pre-processing stages: (1) filtration to remove the noise in the data; (2) activity segmentation; (3) fixed windowing and overlapping segmentation; (4) feature extraction; and, (5) normalization of the data. Using kNN = 5, the stress model obtained 79.82% accuracy (Kappa of 0.74) for controlled set up and 84.77% accuracy (Kappa of 0.78) for the naturalistic set up. As for the performance model, kNN = 5 still got the highest result among the other machine learning algorithms. The controlled set up was 75.31% accurate while 84.77% accuracy for the naturalistic set up. The generated tree of the model did show that the inverted U relationship of stress and performance is precise.