A Study on the Effect of Sports on Academic Stress Using Wearable Galvanic Skin Response

Wearable sensors have opened a new door for research to understand different human emotions and psychological states. This is the first study to employ wearable devices to measure the Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) of students. A set of Microsoft Band 2 was used to collect data from nineteen engineering students while attending the same class. The data was collected throughout a whole semester. Students were later divided into categories according to their weekly activity level. This activity level was determined by an online survey that the students filled out. One-Way Analysis of Variance was performed to assess differences between groups. Correlation Analysis was also performed to evaluate the correlations between groups. Findings of this work include significant intra-group differences. Significant correlations were also found between GSR values and activity level. Significant correlations were also found within the GSR values between the groups themselves.