Dynamically Improving Collective Environments through Mood Induction Procedures

Abstract

In our daily living, the environment surrounding us inuences us as much or more than we inuence it. Whether it is a domestic, leisure or working environment, its conditions will certainly have short and long-term eects on aspects such as stress, mood or fatigue, which will in turn inuence indicators such as productivity, quality of work, quality of life, personal/group performance or even health. In this paper a dynamic environment is proposed that, based on the behavioural analysis of its users, will adapt its conditions to improve particular indicators. This will result in better working environments, with an impact on the quality of the work produced.

Detection of Distraction and Fatigue in Groups through the Analysis of Interaction Patterns with Computers

“…Twenty seven (20 men, 7 women) participants, students from the University of Minho, were selected to participate. The participants were provided with an application for logging the system events related to the mouse and keyboard as described in [4].…”

“…However, what all these tools have in common, is that they are interacted with using mouse and keyboard. The use of these peripherals, as addressed in [4], allows to acquire contextual features that describe the interaction patterns of the user with the computer. These features reflect the behaviour of the user and how it changes under certain conditions, such as when the user is fatigued.…”