Detecting Cognitive Stress from Keyboard and Mouse Dynamics during Mental Arithmetic
Date
2014-08-27Abstract
Much research has been done to detect human emotion using various computational methods, such as physiological measures and facial expression recognition. These methods are effective but they could be expensive or intrusive as special setups of equipment are needed. Some researchers have utilized nonintrusive methods by using mouse or keyboard analyses and presented comparable effectiveness in detecting human emotion. This paper investigates how both keyboard and mouse features can be combined to detect human stress, particularly cognitive stress induced by time pressure and mental arithmetic problems. The results show that the complexity of the mental arithmetic problem and time pressure affect user behaviour, mouse behaviour and keyboard behaviour significantly. This indicates that automatic analysis of human stress from keyboard and mouse input is potentially useful for providing adaptation in interactive systems such as an e-learning system.
Description
Citation : Lim, Y.M., Ayesh, A. and Stacey, M.K. (2014) Detecting Cognitive Stress from Keyboard and Mouse Dynamics during Mental Arithmetic. In: Science and Information Conference 2014. London: IEEE. pp. 146–152
ISBN : 9780989319331
Research Group : Mobile Cognitive Systems Research Group
Research Institute : Cyber Technology Institute (CTI)
Research Institute : Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI)
Research Institute : Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI)
Peer Reviewed : Yes