Intelligent and Interactive Companion Combined With Wearable Technology and Re-creatable Environment to Avoid Anxiety

With the modernization of the world, people have led into more stressful lifestyles. Due to long lasting stress, many individuals experience anxiety conditions and this problem has become a common problem in every society of the world. To solve this issue, technology has come into play with suggestions of different types of solutions. In this paper we have come up with a proposal that can become a future work in the human computer interaction field, which suggests an intelligent and interactive companion supported with wearable technology to monitor the stress level of the user and a controllable environment with the potential of recreating moments, in order to avoid anxiety. Although there are existing wearable devices that help to monitor stress levels and some initial level research has been done to come up with companions to reduce stress, integration of a wearable device along with an interactive companion will be a newer level of research. Also identifying and capturing environmental factors which affects one’s stress level and changing environmental factors to reduce the stress level, is a less studied area. Therefore the suggested future work exposes a research area which has the capability of expanding a lot in the future.

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Hashini Senaratne

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

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[0001]University of Moratuwa

Moratuwa, 10400, Sri Lanka

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.19

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 31

Conference location: Sunderland, UK

Conference date: 3 - 6 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: digital make-believe, with delegates considering our expansive

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[1] [1] Mental Health Foundation 2016 Fundamental Facts about Mental Health Mental Health Foundation London

[2] [2] Australian Bureau of Statistics 2015 National Health Survey: First Results 2014-15 Australian Bureau of Statistics Canberra

[3] [3] World Health Organization 2014 Preventing Suicide - A global imperative WHO Press Geneva

[4] [4] J. NeponS. LeeJ. Bolton Sep 2010 The Relationship between Anxiety Disorders and Suicide Attempts: Findings from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions Depress Anxiety 27 9 791 798

[5] [5] A. J. BaxterK. M. ScottT. VosH. A. Whiteford July 2012 Global prevalence of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-regression Psychological Medicine 43 5 1 14

[6] [6] R. Vacca 2016 Designing for Interactive Loving and Kindness Meditation on Mobile CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '16) California, USA May 07 - 12 2016 1772 1778 ACM New York, USA

[7] [7] N. MoravejiE. SantoroE. SmithA. KaneA. CrumM. Susi 2017 Using a Wearable Health Tracker to Improve Health and Wellbeing under Stress 36th Anxiety and Depression Association of America’s conference

[8] [8] F. OnoratiG. RegaliaC. CaborniR. Picard Sep 2016 Improving convulsive seizure detection by exploiting data from outpatient settings using the Embrace wristband Poster presented at 12th European Congress on Epileptology

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[10] [10] L. Arnold 2016 EmobieTM: A Robot Companion for Children with Anxiety HRI '16 the Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction Christchurch, New Zealand March 07 - 10 2016 413 414 IEEE Press Piscataway NJ, USA

[11] [11] K. WadaT. Shibata Oct 2007 Living with seal robots - Its sociopsychological and physiological influences on the elderly at a care house IEEE Transactions on Robotics 23 5 972 980

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