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FORTH Stress dataset

facial video + body-pose video + ECG/EDA/EMG/RSP under 4 stressor phases (58 adults)

ECGEDARespEMGVideospeechGated access
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A stress-recognition dataset of 58 adults (24 men, 34 women, aged 26.9 ± 4.8 years) who each completed 11 two-minute tasks (neutral, stressful and relaxing) across social exposure, emotional recall, mental workload and stressful-video phases. Recordings include facial video, body-posture video, ECG, electrodermal activity, EMG, breathing and speech, plus demographics and STAI/PSS-10/HADS/DERS questionnaires.

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Type
Dataset
Host
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DOI
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Licence
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Access
Gated / on request
Subjects
58
Signals
ECGEDARespEMGVideospeech
PPG sites
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Setting
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Wrist
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Raw waveforms
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Tasks
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Updated
Nov 5, 2026

Original description

A neutral condition was presented at the beginning of each phase of the experiment. This condition was used as a baseline for the subsequent stressful tasks.

The Stress dataset has been freely available for research and education purposes. To obtain access to the dataset, you need to complete and sign the user agreement form (TBA in this repository). The form should be signed, and emailed to Giorgos Giannakakis (ggian@ics.forth.gr). We will verify your request and contact you on how to download the dataset.

Verbatim fromGitHub· Description from the repository README

FORTH Stress dataset: ChatPPG research summary card

Key numbers

58
Subjects
3
Reference labels
ECG, STRESS LABEL, QUESTIONNAIRES

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FORTH Stress dataset
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No model in the hub reports results on this dataset yet.

Reference labels
ecg, stress label, questionnaires

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Cite the dated snapshot 2026-10 for a fixed, reproducible version. Please also cite the original publications listed above.

APA

ChatPPG. (2026). FORTH Stress dataset: dataset record (Version 2026-10) [Data set]. ChatPPG Research Hub. https://chatppg.com/research/datasets/forth-stress-facial-video

BibTeX
@misc{chatppg_dataset_forth_stress_facial_video,
  author       = {{ChatPPG}},
  title        = {{FORTH Stress dataset: dataset record}},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = nov,
  version      = {2026-10},
  howpublished = {\url{https://chatppg.com/research/datasets/forth-stress-facial-video}},
  note         = {ChatPPG Research Hub, Snapshot 2026-10, https://chatppg.com/research/snapshots/2026-10}
}
CITATION.cff
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this resource, please cite it as below."
type: dataset
title: "FORTH Stress dataset: dataset record"
authors:
  - name: "ChatPPG"
url: "https://chatppg.com/research/datasets/forth-stress-facial-video"
repository-artifact: "https://chatppg.com/research/snapshots/2026-10"
version: "2026-10"
date-released: "2026-11-05"

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