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How stressed are you at work? Ask your mouse

How stressed are you at work? Ask your mouse
Workers made longer, less accurate movements with their mouse, as well as more typing errors, when they were stressed. (Image: Getty)
The Wall Street Journal
By Suman BhattacharyyaAn artificial intelligence (AI) model can be used to detect stress in office workers based on how they use their mouse and keyboard.So suggests a new study, which found that a machine-learning model using those measurements was more accurate at detecting stress in people than a model that tracked heart-rate data.“We saw that the models that just used the mouse and keyboard data performed better than the models that had the cardiac data in it,” says Mara Naegelin, a PhD student at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Fede...

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