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- research-articleJune 2024
Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education
CHIWORK '24: Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for WorkJune 2024, Article No.: 6, Pages 1–14https://doi.org/10.1145/3663384.3663394Telepresence robotics enable people to synchronously communicate and interact at a distance. The Covid-19 pandemic caused in-person teaching and research activities to migrate online in almost all society sectors (including higher education). In hybrid ...
- extended-abstractMay 2024
The CHI’24 Workshop on the Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics
CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 2024, Article No.: 491, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3636296While Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has contributed to demonstrating that physiological measures can be used to detect cognitive changes, engineering and machine learning will bring these to application in consumer wearable technology. For HCI, many ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload
CHIIR '24: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and RetrievalMarch 2024, Pages 303–316https://doi.org/10.1145/3627508.3638313Cognitive style has been shown to influence users’ interaction with search interfaces. However, as a fundamental dimension of cognitive styles, the relationship between the Verbal-Imagery (VI) cognitive style dimension and search behaviour has not been ...
- extended-abstractSeptember 2023
The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics
MobileHCI '23 Companion: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer InteractionSeptember 2023, Article No.: 35, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3565066.3609790While Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has contributed to demonstrating that physiological measures can be used to detect cognitive changes, engineering and machine learning will bring these to application in consumer wearable technology. For HCI, many ...
- extended-abstractJuly 2023
Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation
- Gisela Reyes-Cruz,
- Isaac Phypers,
- Andriana Boudouraki,
- Dominic Price,
- Joel Fischer,
- Stuart Reeves,
- Maria Galvez Trigo,
- Horia Maior
TAS '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous SystemsJuly 2023, Article No.: 55, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3597532Mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) allows remote users’ access and mobility in a range of local environments. MRP devices have been adopted in societally significant domains such as workplaces, museums, commerce, education, and healthcare, especially ...
- research-articleApril 2023
I think I don’t feel sick: Exploring the Relationship Between Cognitive Demand and Cybersickness in Virtual Reality using fNIRS
- Katharina Margareta Theresa Pöhlmann,
- Horia A. Maior,
- Julia Föcker,
- Louise O'Hare,
- Adrian Parke,
- Aleksandra Ladowska,
- Patrick Dickinson
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2023, Article No.: 20, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581063Virtual Reality (VR) applications commonly use the illusion of self-motion (vection) to simulate experiences such as running, driving, or flying. However, this can lead to cybersickness, which diminishes the experience of users, and can even lead to ...
- research-articleJune 2022
Understanding the Ethical Concerns for Neurotechnology in the Future of Work
CHIWORK '22: Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for WorkJune 2022, Article No.: 17, Pages 1–19https://doi.org/10.1145/3533406.3533423Advances in automation and autonomous systems means that the future of work will involve even more cognitive effort. For those in already cognitively demanding work, many of us aim to optimise our effort and productivity to achieve more in work, and ...
- posterApril 2022
The Impact of Motion Scaling and Haptic Guidance on Operators’ Workload and Performance in Teleoperation
- Soran Parsa,
- Horia A. Maior,
- Alex Reeve Elliott Thumwood,
- Max L Wilson,
- Marc Hanheide,
- Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani
CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2022, Article No.: 253, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519814The use of human operator managed robotics, especially for safety critical work, includes a shift from physically demanding to mentally challenging work, and new techniques for Human-Robot Interaction are being developed to make teleoperation easier ...
- extended-abstractApril 2022
SIG: Moving from Brain-Computer Interfaces to Personal Cognitive Informatics
CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2022, Article No.: 163, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3516402Consumer neurotechnology is arriving en masse, even while algorithms for user state estimation are being actively defined and developed. Indeed, many consumable wearables are now available that try to estimate cognitive changes from wrist data or body ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Measuring Mental Workload Variations in Office Work Tasks using fNIRS
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHC), Volume 147, Issue CMar 2021https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102580Highlights- We studied whether fNIRS could differentiate between different levels of difficulty in everyday representations of reading and writing tasks of information workers.
- We used personalised tasks to each participant, with simulated ...
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 ...
- research-articleNovember 2019
Exploring Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Mental Workload using fNIRS Data from HCI Tasks
HTTF 2019: Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019November 2019, Article No.: 8, Pages 1–11https://doi.org/10.1145/3363384.3363392Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) has shown promise for being potentially more suitable (than e.g. EEG) for brain-based Human Computer Interaction (HCI). While some machine learning approaches have been used in prior HCI work, this paper ...
- abstractMay 2019
fNIRS and Neurocinematics
CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 2019, Paper No.: LBW2522, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312814In the overlap between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Cinematics, sits an interest in physiological responses to experiences. Focusing particularly on brain data, Neurocinematics has emerged as a research field using Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) ...
- abstractApril 2018
How Stress Affects Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Measurements of Mental Workload
CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2018, Paper No.: LBW512, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188646Recent work has demonstrated that functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy has the potential to measure changes in Mental Workload with increasing ecological validity. It is not clear, however, whether these measurements are affected by anxiety and stress ...
- noteMay 2016
Using fNIRS in Usability Testing: Understanding the Effect of Web Form Layout on Mental Workload
CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 2016, Pages 4011–4016https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858236Amongst the many tasks in our lives, we encounter web forms on a regular basis, whether they are mundane like registering for a website, or complex and important like tax returns. There are many aspects of Usability, but one concern for user interfaces ...
- noteApril 2015
Examining the Reliability of Using fNIRS in Realistic HCI Settings for Spatial and Verbal Tasks
CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2015, Pages 3039–3042https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702315Recent efforts have shown that functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has potential value for brain sensing in HCI user studies. Research has shown that, although large head movement significantly affects fNIRS data, typical keyboard use, mouse ...
- research-articleApril 2014
Measuring the effect of think aloud protocols on workload using fNIRS
CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2014, Pages 3807–3816https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2556974The Think Aloud Protocol (TAP) is a verbalisation technique widely employed in HCI user studies to give insight into user experience, yet little work has explored the impact that TAPs have on participants during user studies. This paper utilises a brain ...