Dr HORIA MAIOR's Outputs (15)

Work Hard, Play Harder: Intense Games Enable Recovery from High Mental Workload Tasks (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, L., Knierim, M. T., Wilson, M. L., Dickinson, P., & Maior, H. A. (2025, April). Work Hard, Play Harder: Intense Games Enable Recovery from High Mental Workload Tasks. Presented at CHI '25: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Playing games has been shown to be an effective method of post- work recovery. Previous research has shown that gameplay with high cognitive involvement is effective for recovery. This finding conflicts with models of mental workload (MWL), which sug... Read More about Work Hard, Play Harder: Intense Games Enable Recovery from High Mental Workload Tasks.

Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, H. R., Reyes-Cruz, G., Piskopani, A.-M., Barnard, P., Boudouraki, A., Caleb-Solly, P., Castle-Green, S., Fischer, J., Hyde, R., Kucukyilmaz, A., & Maior, H. A. (2025, April). Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives. Presented at CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Telepresence robots have the potential to change our experiences in galleries and museums, allowing for a range of hybrid interactions for visitors and museum professionals, improving accessibility, offering activities or information, and providing a... Read More about Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives.

Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment (2024)
Journal Article
Odoh, G., Landowska, A., Crowe, E. M., Benali, K., Cobb, S., Wilson, M. L., Maior, H. A., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2024). Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 30984. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82112-4

Robotics holds the potential to streamline the execution of repetitive and dangerous tasks, which are difficult or impossible for a human operator. However, in complex scenarios, such as nuclear waste management or disaster response, full automation... Read More about Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment.

Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hu, J., Reyes Cruz, G., Fischer, J., & Maior, H. A. (2024, June). Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education. Presented at CHIWORK 2024, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Telepresence 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 hybr... Read More about Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education.

The CHI'24 Workshop on the Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M. L., Shaban, J., Maior, H. A., Schneegass, C., & L Cox, A. (2024, May). The CHI'24 Workshop on the Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics. Presented at CHI’24 Workshop on the Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics, Honolulu HI USA

While 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, ma... Read More about The CHI'24 Workshop on the Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics.

Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tang, H., Benerradi, J., Maior, H. A., Pike, M., Landowska, A., & Wilson, M. L. (2024, March). Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload. Presented at CHIIR '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Sheffield, UK

Cognitive 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 be... Read More about Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload.

The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneegass, C., Wilson, M. L., Maior, H. A., Chiossi, F., Cox, A. L., & Wiese, J. (2023, September). The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics. Presented at Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Athens, Greece

While 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, ma... Read More about The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics.

“They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Trigo, M. J. G., Reyes-Cruz, G., Maior, H. A., Pepper, C., Price, D., Leonard, P., Tochia, C., Hyde, R., Watson, N., & Fischer, J. E. (2023, August). “They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot. Presented at IEEE RO-MAN 2023, Busan, South Korea

Increasingly, robots are adopted for routine tasks such as cleaning and disinfection of public spaces, raising questions about attitudes and trust of professional cleaners who might in future have robots as teammates, and whether the general public f... Read More about “They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot.

Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Phypers, I., Boudouraki, A., Price, D., Fischer, J., Reeves, S., Galvez Trigo, M., & Maior, H. (2023, July). Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Mobile 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... Read More about Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation.

The Impact of Motion Scaling and Haptic Guidance on Operators’ Workload and Performance in Teleoperation (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Parsa, S., Maior, H. A., Thumwood, A. R. E., Wilson, M. L., Hanheide, M., & Esfahani, A. G. (2022, April). The Impact of Motion Scaling and Haptic Guidance on Operators’ Workload and Performance in Teleoperation. Presented at CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans LA USA

The 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... Read More about The Impact of Motion Scaling and Haptic Guidance on Operators’ Workload and Performance in Teleoperation.

Exploring Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Mental Workload using fNIRS Data from HCI Tasks (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benerradi, J., Maior, H. A., Marinescu, A., Clos, J., & Wilson, M. L. (2019, November). Exploring Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Mental Workload using fNIRS Data from HCI Tasks. Presented at Halfway to the Future, Nottingham, UK

Functional 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... Read More about Exploring Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Mental Workload using fNIRS Data from HCI Tasks.

Brain activity and mental workload associated with artistic practice (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., Locke, C., & Swann, D. (2018, April). Brain activity and mental workload associated with artistic practice. Presented at CHI 2018 Artistic BCI Workshop

We present the first stage of our on-going artist-driven BCI collaboration, where we equipped an artist with the brain scanning technique functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) in order to record mental workload levels during her creative prac... Read More about Brain activity and mental workload associated with artistic practice.

Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M. L., Sharon, N., Maior, H. A., Midha, S., Craven, M. P., & Sharples, S. (2018, April). Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker. Presented at 3rd Symposium on Computing and Mental Health: Understanding, Engaging, and Delighting Users

Research continues to correlate physical signals with mental activity, as opposed to physical activity, with physiological sensors. Further, with the proliferation of wearable technology, it seems imminent that our smart watches can soon keep track o... Read More about Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker.

Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks (2018)
Journal Article
Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2018). Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 25(2), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173380

Feedback is valuable for allowing us to improve on tasks. While retrospective feedback can help us improve for next time, feedback “in action” can allow us to improve the outcome of on-going tasks. In this paper, we use data from functional Near Infr... Read More about Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks.

How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsuraykh, N. H., Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., Tennent, P., & Sharples, S. (2018, April). How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload. Presented at CHI 2018: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts)

Recent 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 stre... Read More about How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload.