Stress Sensing Based on Sweat Biomarkers Analysis for Integration in Textiles: The STRESSENSE Project

Stress, both physical and psychological, has been related to several diseases and discordant social behavior. In the STRESSENSE project, civilian, military and business' association researchers (from FCT-NOVA, CINAMIL/Academia Militar and CITEVE) join their multidisciplinary skills to attain a novel methodology for early stress biomarkers detection, using non-invasive methodologies where sweat is the target biological fluid with the goal to attain an integrated sensor in wearables. The team has complementary expertise in electrochemistry, analytics, biochemistry, materials, smart textiles, data-processing, and machine learning, together with knowledge associated to individuals' emotional and physical behavior. The volunteers from Portuguese Army (Academia Militar) take part in the case-of-study for novel the methodology proof-of-concept. The innovative sensing wearable textile device, in development, present high interest in different fields from medicine, sports to health care services.