What a stressful society we live in. Besides developing a culture where people thrive on pressure and anxiety all the time, we now spend time and money measuring how stressed out we feel. Enter the electronic stress assistant, which researchers at ETH Zurich's Electronics Laboratory believe is the magic bullet to reducing stress.
But first, you need to be in a state of stress before it can tell you you're stressed. So it's a bit of a double-whammy, ain't it? That said, the researchers admit that while initial tests on 30 subjects have proved promising, with 83 percent accuracy in detecting stress based on skin conduction, these tests have to be combined with results from other test methods before making any assertions. Well!
So okay, maybe the intent is noble--to help prevent burnout and deal with depression if detected early. But if the sensors are going to be integrated into socks, there go happy socks out the window. Gosh, we're stressed already just writing about this!
SOURCE: asia.cnet
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