Happy or Moody ? Why so ? Monitoring Daily Routines at Work and Inferring Their Influence on Mood

Technological advancements afford monitoring domains of people’s behavior more precisely than a human observer is able to, allowing health-related sciences to benefit in various ways. We aim to employ technology to acquire more detailed information about workers’ behavior and to find its correlation with mood states. In current literature, daily mood variation and its determinants are often examined but solely relying on self-rating questionnaires for reporting activities. By exploiting technology to monitor individuals’ daily routines at work, we attempt to find precursors of mood states and to create persuasive interventions in order to improve workers’ well-being.

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