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An Investigation Of Decision Analytic Methodologies For Stress Identification, Yong Deng, Chao-Hsien Chu, Huayou Si, Qixun Zhang, Zhonghai Wu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In modern society, more and more people are suffering from some type of stress. Monitoring and timely detecting of stress level will be very valuable for the person to take counter measures. In this paper, we investigate the use of decision analytics methodologies to detect stress. We present a new feature selection method based on the principal component analysis (PCA), compare three feature selection methods, and evaluate five information fusion methods for stress detection. A driving stress data set created by the MIT Media lab is used to evaluate the relative performance of these methods. Our study show that the …