Designing Stress Relieving Game Associated to Virtual and Augmented Reality for Bus Drivers

Stress is a phenomenal problem that affects a large number of worker, regardless of the financial or social status, age and profession, a person exposed to stress may develop health problems that can interfere with work and his quality of life. Problems about stress should not be taken for granted as it may lead to health problems that causes sickness absenteeism. In this scenario it is important to have strategies that helps to deal with such problem. Nowadays technology has been used in different areas not only to help our day to day transactions easy but also provide assistance in coping with psychological problems like stress thru computer games, mainly those based upon Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) techniques because it offers players some experiences like: relaxation, sense of control, challenges, learning opportunities and immersion and so these characteristics can contribute to the control process of stress. In this paper, it aimed to describe a design intervention though virtual reality game controlled by breathing and simple body movements to relieve stress.