COSMS: unconscious stress monitoring system for office worker

To increase the productivity of people's work, one of the most important challenges is to proactively keep and improve their mental health in the office while continuously obtaining their physiological information. In this paper, aiming to allow an office-worker to recognize his/her mental health and do self-care easily for prevention and reduction of his/her stress, as a pilot study, we propose Unconscious Stress Monitoring System for Office Worker, called COSMS. COSMS is a system acquiring physiological information continuously and unconsciously through ordinary equipment of a laptop such as in-camera and mouse. By using a laptop which embeds a depth camera, COSMS monitors a user's vital information such as heart rate, face expression, eye gazing as well as mouse movement and typing amount. In addition, we embed sensors into a mouse to monitor an environmental stress via temperature and humidity of user hand.