Measuring Mental Workload Variations in Office Work Tasks using fNIRS

The motivation behind using physiological measures to estimate cognitive activity is typically to build technology that can help people to understand themselves and their work, or indeed for systems to do so and adapt. While functional Near Infrared …

Mental workload during n-back task-quantified in the prefrontal cortex using fNIRS

When interacting with technical systems, users experience mental workload. Particularly in multitasking scenarios (e.g., interacting with the car navigation system while driving) it is desired to not distract the users from their primary task. For …