Smart E-Textile Pad as means of Maintaining Student and Teacher Well-Being
INTED2022 Proceedings: 16th International Technology, Education and Development Conference 2022
Airisa Šteinberga, Anete Hofmane, Aleksandrs Okss, Aleksejs Kataševs

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused changes into every-day lives, more specifically, how people work and study. Teachers and students had to learn how to work and study remotely, which inturn limited their social networking and physical movement. This has caused impact on stress management, which is an essential attribute in teacher’s well-being [1] and digital work can trigger shortcomings in other aspects of well-being – relationships, health and work-life balance [2]. The smart e-textile pad would serve as a tool for timely detection of elevated stress levels, which would allow people to notice and recognize the problem before it turns into a serious disorder, thus the aim of the research paper is a development of methodology for measuring well-being by means of smart e-textile pad inorder to improve teacher and student well-being while working from a computer. The methodology consists of smart e-textile pad, which teachers and students use, while remaining seated at their computer during work. The system registers subliminal signals about elevated stress level, these signals are received by an special application, which then provides personalised recommendations for the person to help manage the stress levels. The gathered results indicate how the smart e-textile pad registers movements while remaining in a seated position. The results can further be used to categorise movements that are indicators of elevated levels of stress


Keywords
Stress level monitoring, personalised stress management, e-textile, stress management system, teacher well-being, remote work and studies
DOI
10.21125/inted.2022.0506
Hyperlink
https://library.iated.org/view/STEINBERGA2022SMA

Šteinberga, A., Hofmane, A., Okss, A., Kataševs, A. Smart E-Textile Pad as means of Maintaining Student and Teacher Well-Being. In: INTED2022 Proceedings: 16th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Spain, Valencia, 7-8 March, 2022. Valencia: IATED Academy, 2022, pp.1667-1676. ISBN 978-84-09-37758-9. ISSN 2340-1079. Available from: doi:10.21125/inted.2022.0506

Publication language
English (en)
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