Developing mHealth App for Tracking Academic Stress and Physiological Reactions to Stress

Abstract

Many university students experience stress that lead to negative effect on health and academic performance. In this paper we present the development of a mobile health application named NokoriMe, which consists of the design of an original academic stress questionnaire and the implementation of the application. NokoriMe application enables students to measure and track stress over time and to visualize trends and correlations in stress and physiological responses to stress (i.e. sleep quality and physical activity patterns). A pilot usability study shows that the developed application is intuitive to use, but there is room for further improvement on questionnaire design and data visualization.

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