Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS

Gathering neuro-physiological data during user studies, and analysing the continuous data they produce, typically involves making a tradeoff between detail and practical utility. is paper describes our long-term work-in-progress towards developing study protocols for using functional Near-InfraRed...

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Main Authors: Wilson, Max L., Alsuraykh, Norah, Maior, Horia A.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41341/
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author Wilson, Max L.
Alsuraykh, Norah
Maior, Horia A.
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description Gathering neuro-physiological data during user studies, and analysing the continuous data they produce, typically involves making a tradeoff between detail and practical utility. is paper describes our long-term work-in-progress towards developing study protocols for using functional Near-InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS) with the aim of finding the ideal balance in this tradeoff. Our results show that fNIRS can be easily used in normal IIR user study conditions, is tolerant of minor movement artefacts (including speaking), and can still determine mental workload differences between different user interfaces designed for the same task.
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spelling nottingham-413412020-05-04T18:37:20Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41341/ Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS Wilson, Max L. Alsuraykh, Norah Maior, Horia A. Gathering neuro-physiological data during user studies, and analysing the continuous data they produce, typically involves making a tradeoff between detail and practical utility. is paper describes our long-term work-in-progress towards developing study protocols for using functional Near-InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS) with the aim of finding the ideal balance in this tradeoff. Our results show that fNIRS can be easily used in normal IIR user study conditions, is tolerant of minor movement artefacts (including speaking), and can still determine mental workload differences between different user interfaces designed for the same task. 2017-03-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Wilson, Max L., Alsuraykh, Norah and Maior, Horia A. (2017) Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS. In: NeuroIIR 2017 - CHIIR Workshop on Challenges in Bringing Neuroscience to Research in Human-Information Interaction, 11 Mar 2017, Oslo, Norway. https://sites.google.com/site/neuroiir2017/papers
spellingShingle Wilson, Max L.
Alsuraykh, Norah
Maior, Horia A.
Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS
title Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS
title_full Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS
title_fullStr Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS
title_full_unstemmed Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS
title_short Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS
title_sort measuring mental workload in iir user studies with fnirs
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41341/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41341/