Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Centre for Digital Health Interventions, Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
J Med Internet Res. 2021 Apr 2;23(4):e27121. doi: 10.2196/27121.
Work stress affects individual health and well-being. These negative effects could be mitigated through regular monitoring of employees' stress. Such monitoring becomes even more important as the digital transformation of the economy implies profound changes in working conditions.
The goal of this study was to investigate the association between computer mouse movements and work stress in the field.
We hypothesized that stress is associated with a speed-accuracy trade-off in computer mouse movements. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a longitudinal field study at a large business organization, where computer mouse movements from regular work activities were monitored over 7 weeks; the study included 70 subjects and 1829 observations. A Bayesian regression model was used to estimate whether self-reported acute work stress was associated with a speed-accuracy trade-off in computer mouse movements.
There was a negative association between stress and the two-way interaction term of mouse speed and accuracy (mean -0.32, 95% highest posterior density interval -0.58 to -0.08), which means that stress was associated with a speed-accuracy trade-off. The estimated association was not sensitive to different processing of the data and remained negative after controlling for the demographics, health, and personality traits of subjects.
Self-reported acute stress is associated with computer mouse movements, specifically in the form of a speed-accuracy trade-off. This finding suggests that the regular analysis of computer mouse movements could indicate work stress.
工作压力会影响个人的健康和幸福感。这些负面影响可以通过定期监测员工的压力来减轻。随着经济的数字化转型意味着工作条件发生深刻变化，这种监测变得更加重要。
本研究旨在调查现场计算机鼠标运动与工作压力之间的关联。
我们假设压力与计算机鼠标运动中的速度-准确性权衡有关。为了验证这一假设，我们在一家大型商业组织中进行了一项纵向现场研究，在 7 周的时间里监测了他们的日常工作活动中的计算机鼠标运动；该研究包括 70 名受试者和 1829 次观察。使用贝叶斯回归模型来估计急性工作压力与计算机鼠标运动中的速度-准确性权衡之间是否存在关联。
压力与鼠标速度和准确性的双向交互项之间存在负相关（平均值为-0.32，95%最高后验密度区间为-0.58 至-0.08），这意味着压力与速度-准确性权衡有关。该估计关联不受数据处理方式的影响，并且在控制受试者的人口统计学、健康和个性特征后仍然为负。
自我报告的急性压力与计算机鼠标运动有关，特别是表现为速度-准确性权衡。这一发现表明，定期分析计算机鼠标运动可以指示工作压力。
