Value Proposition
QUANTIFYING
EMPLOYEE'S STRESS
Our stress sensing technology helps businesses that want to effectively manage their employees by removing any uncertainty around how stressed they are. This allows businesses to increase their retention rate of employees by seeing in real-time how employees are feeling and addressing their needs, unlike traditional methods where you have to give them questionnaires about how they feel or wait till they bring it up to you as a complaint.
Our Story
HOW WE CAME ABOUT
Our invertor Ioannis Palvidlis noticed the value that knowledge workers brought to the workforce along with what most had to go through to become good employees. He discovered that many employees had to multitask which ultimately led to burnout and disruption within the company.
Currently, 87% of employees have stated that burnout is an issue in their workforce and 70% have mentioned that they would leave their job if another company would offer better resources to reduce this issue. Companies are attempting to fix this issue by looking at ways to figure out how to understand their employee’s stress and are currently doing so by providing self-reported questionnaires to get feedback. Although these current methods are good ways to try to uncover how employees might be feeling it doesn’t provide quantifiable ways to measure stress.
This gap is where our inverter Ioannis Palvidlis saw an opportunity to develop a technology to do just that. He decided to do research around this situation and an experiment by analyzing people's emotions and psychological responses using a thermal camera. The test began by assigning them to type emails, one group had a single batch of emails and the second had continuous emails coming their way. As a result, the team that had continuous emails appeared to have a negative emotional reaction along with elevated levels of stress. Now having a technology that has the ability to analyze human emotions unobtrusively in real-time while they work can allow managers to see when their employees are stressed out and will provide a quantifiable measurement that they can use to overall help decrease the number of employees affected by severe stress.
Our Product
UNOBTRUSIVE
MEASUREMENTS
Thermal facial scanning technology that detects nervous system responses through unobtrusive measures of 2D imagery. This technology measures neuro-physiological responses via multiple variables on various parts of the face such as blood flow, sweat gland activation, and breathing. It effectively and more precisely measures stress levels in humans by sensing peripheral sympathetic responses.
PATENT STATUS
The technology is currently patented with the applicants being the University of Houston and inventor Pavlidis Ioannis. The patent protects the right to detect the area between a humans' nose and their mouth known as the perinasal region. This patent also allows for a method of quantifying responses through the perinasal region through thermal Imaging and having a computer communication that allows to track the results.
The People
STAKEHOLDERS
Ioannis Pavlidis
Inventor
Dr. Pavlidis‚ current research interests involve computational medicine, where he is charting new territory. He developed a series of methods to compute vital signs of subjects in an automated, contact-free, and passive manner. Dr. Pavlidis originated multiple patents and is considered one of the founders of modern lie detection technology. He has allowed us to work with him on getting this technology commercialized and has provided his experience to us.
Alex Borja
Chief ExecutiveOfficer
Alex Borja is the CEO of Stressense and is leading the efforts for the team. He is responsible with organizing the team decisions and actions. He has prior experience working within sales and digital marketing which he has utilized in not only this project but other entrepreneurial experiences. This project has been a huge interest to him because of the psychological analysis of humans and its unobtrusive process which is revolutionary.
Nathan Morales
Chief Operations Officer
Nathan Morales, the COO of Stressense, assists with coordinating operations communications among the team and partners, as well as ensuring all patent information is up to date. Mr. Morales has previous experience in consulting, PR and marketing which all attribute to the skillset he is able to provide for the projects and teams he works on. Nathan is ecstatic about the opportunity to be apart of Stressense as we attempt to pioneer a new pathway for quantifiably measuring stress and identifying associated indicators.
Monse Sanchez
Chief
Product Officer
Monse Sanchez, the CPO of Stressense, handles product development and product distribution, both internally and with partners. Monse has a background in supply chain, and overtime has developed a passion for creating innovative solutions to product management. She is looking forward to utilizing her skillset and knowledge to further develop Stressense technologies in an effort to change the neuro-physiological industry landscape.
Nery Suarez
Chief
Financial Officer
Nery Suarez, CFO of Stressense, is responsible for researching funding opportunities and the brand of the business. She has experience in the sales, finance, and marketing industry. She is thrilled to keep working on the growth of Stressense along with her team members and expand it across the nation to decrease the amount of people affected by stress.