An expert system for stress management

An Expert System for Stress Management (ESSM) is a system that mimics the role played by a psychologist or counselor of stress expert to provide a virtual consultancy. Counselor always uses these systems manually to determine level of stress and personality interest of individual. However, ESSM is aimed to change these two very different manual systems into computerized one, by extracting data from a career test and relates them together with stress test to determine and recommend best stress management for particular individual based on their activity interest. ESSM is applied through psychometric method where user is prompted to complete two set of questionnaire. ESSM combines stress test and personality test that is extracted from Holland´s Self Directed Search Model (RIASEC), which is used as Career Test by career counselor/consultant. Extraction from Holland´s Model is aimed to determine human´s behavior and interests which existing Websites only use stress test to determine stress disorder, and randomly recommend solutions for user, no matter what type of personality they are. ESSM contains recommendation based on interest activity by combining conclusion from both stress and personality test. Personality based on interest is extracted from RIASEC. The prototype of this system is rule-based expert system technique. The success of implementation and development of this project is expected to help in reducing time consumed and human power in determining best recommendation and solution for stress management.