Abstract:

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 in turn limited their social networking and physical movement. This has caused impact on stress management, which is an essential attribute in teacher’s well-being (Suleman, Shehzad, Syed & Raja, 2018) and digital work can trigger shortcomings in other aspects of well-being – relationships, health, and work-life balance (Juchnowicz & Kinowska, 2021). 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 to improve teacher and student well-being while working from a computer. The methodology is based on application of e-textile pad with integrated highly sensitive textile pressure sensors, which teachers and students use, while remaining seated at their computer during work. The system then registers, processes, and analyses signals from sensors caused by subliminal body movements. Finally received data are “translated” into a certain stress level, that is indicated by a special application, which then provides personalized recommendations for the person to help manage levels of stress. The present research shows how the smart e-textile pad monitors subliminal body movements while remaining in a seated position.

Keywords:

Stress level monitoring, personalized stress management, e-textile, stress management system, teacher well-being, remote work and studies.