The research conducted by a team at Simon Fraser University in Canada and the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi in Pakistan suggests that AI shows strong potential in future applications for addressing mental health and wellbeing.
“In the two years since the onset of Covid-19, and one climate disaster after another, more and more people are experiencing anxiety,” said visiting professor and social psychologist Gulnaz Anjum. “Our research appears to show that AI could provide a highly reliable measurement for recognising the signs that someone is anxious.”
Anjum and collaborators Nida Saddaf Khan and Sayeed Ghani from IBA Karachi collected an extensive range of data from adult participants for their Human Activity Recognition (HAR) study. Participants performed a series of activities in a specific order while wearing sensors that recorded their movements.
The team created a dataset of activities of typical anxiety-displaying behaviours...