Method for monitoring stress and vital signs in teachers when conducting online classes, using wearable devices

Abstract

In this sense, online classes have allowed changing many paradigms related to education, one of them is related to the health situation of teachers, who drastically changed the physical place of teaching classes, they went from a classroom with all the comforts to accommodate their homes and adapt them so that they can fulfill their activities, this situation generates stress in teachers which can be dangerous if it is not controlled. In this work we propose a low-cost mechanism for monitoring vital signs and mainly to evaluate stress, the results show that the chosen device known as smart watch added to the functionalities of the applications, allow to record the stress values and to record and visualize their behavior. © 2023 ACM.