Research of stress detection system by measuring nasal skin temperature

Abstract

Recently, it is called that Japan is a stress-filled society because various job stress are often seen in our activities at home and business. In addition, the mental health disorder may be caused by mental stress, which is produced by bad conditions for not only the mind but also the body, and also could be lead to many diseases. If we can monitor our own situation of mental stress easily, we can expect effective approaches for recognizing mental stress factors and prevention of mental stress on self-management. In this paper, we described system development to detect mental stress in real time, which informs us by means of unique material characteristic such as nasal skin temperature drops under stress condition. Furthermore, we are approaching to develop new detection system using a web camera and a thermographic camera.