TIDEs: Biometric Data on Developer Technostress

Version 1.0.0 biometric data released by Birmingham City University on 1 August 2025. It is an Excel workbook with six worksheets containing participant demographics, task outcomes, time-series biometric measurements, and derived statistical summaries. The time-series worksheets contain raw biometric measurements recorded during two cycles of activity.

Use Cases

• Analyze physiological stress responses during development tasks based on time-series biometric measurements.
• Correlate task performance outcomes with biometric indicators of technostress.
• Model developer stress levels based on derived statistical summary features.
• Investigate demographic factors influencing biometric responses to technostress.

Strengths

• Contains both raw time-series biometric measurements and derived statistical summaries.
• Data is structured across six dedicated worksheets for demographics, task outcomes, and two cycles of time-series and summary data.
• Worksheets can be exported independently as CSV files for integration with analysis software.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Birmingham City University

Collection Method

Likely collected via biometric sensors during controlled software development tasks.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-21 11:29:52; freshness should be verified.