INTERSTRESS

This section provides video demos of the prototypes and application under development

Learning Island

In the Learning Island the user can learn different aspects related to stress such as its

main causes, its symptoms, stress-management strategies and new emotion-focused

coping strategies, simply by exploring virtual worlds.

Psych-Log: an open source mobile application

Psych-Log is a mobile sampling platform that allows real-time collection of

psychological, behavioral and physiological data for research and clinical applications.

Relaxation Training

During the relaxation training, users learn some stress relieving exercises that can

be experienced again in the real life context before or during stressful activities.

Personal Biomonitoring System

The wireless Personal Biomonitoring System (PBS) consisting of independent lycra-based 

wearable bands will unobtrusively perform an ecological tracking of full body motion

through a 3D wearable motion analysis platform integrating biosensors for

the transduction of heart rate variability (HRV), electrodermal response (EDR) and

peripheral temperature, as well as ENOBIO system for the acquisition of EEG.

The Camera and Accelerometer

The Camera and Accelerometer –Based Activity Recognition (CBAR) system is capable

to detect specific gestures and also extract qualitative characteristics of the patient’s

activity within the clinical setting. This way, the INTERSTRESS platform is augmented

with behavioural features of the patient that can improve effectiveness towards

automatic stress level estimation in the clinical setting.

EEG Correlates of Stress

Starlab has developed the wireless and wearable ENOBIO sensor that can record

EEG, ECG and EOG signals. ENOBIO is being used in INTERSTRESS to detect and

manage stress.

Psych-Log: a personal data collection platform for psychophysiological research 

Assessing and monitoring emotional, cognitive and behavioral dimensions of human experience, both in laboratory or in clinical settings, have a central role in psychophysiology research. Computerized experience-sampling method, including a mobile-based system that collects psychophysiological data, appears to be a very promising assessment approach to investigate the real-time fluctuation of experience in daily life. PsychLog is a free open-source mobile experience sampling platform that allows psychophysiological data to be collected, aggregated, visualized, collated into reports and shared also beyond the laboratory settings

Patient Management System

Patient Management System (PSM) is a service module of INTERSTRESS platform. The PMS will enable the clinicians and patients to set and control the INTERSTRESS system based on the different relevant parameters required for managing patients’ therapy.The goal of PMS is to allow the therapist to manage the clinical services, schedule treatment, assign home exercises and monitor compliance. In addition, the PMS provides the patient with a self-tracking service that allows him/her to monitor the stress levels.

The therapist's interface

The patient's interface

Making of VR Stressful Situations

Description of the process to define the VR stressful scèenarios used in the Interstress protocol, the process of production and post-production of green screen videos for VR environment customization and the process of adding and programming videos for the NeuroVR software by AtnpLab of researcher in psychology of Istituto Auxologico Italiano.