Outputs (49)

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.

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.

Broadening the mind: How emerging neurotechnology is reshaping HCI and interactive system design (2024)
Journal Article
Schneegass, C., Wilson, M. L., Shaban, J., Niess, J., Chiossi, F., Mitrevska, T., & Wozniak, P. W. (in press). Broadening the mind: How emerging neurotechnology is reshaping HCI and interactive system design. i-com, 23(2), 165-177. https://doi.org/10.1515/icom-2024-0007

People are increasingly eager to know more about themselves through technology. To date, technology has primarily provided information on our physiology. Yet, with advances in wearable technology and artificial intelligence, the current advent of con... Read More about Broadening the mind: How emerging neurotechnology is reshaping HCI and interactive system design.

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.

Adaptative computerized cognitive training decreases mental workload during working memory precision task - A preliminary fNIRS study (2024)
Journal Article
Landowska, A., Wilson, M. L., Craven, M. P., & Harrington, K. (2024). Adaptative computerized cognitive training decreases mental workload during working memory precision task - A preliminary fNIRS study. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 184, Article 103206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103206

With the growing concern for the health of ageing populations, much research continues to look at the impact of cognitive training, particularly in relation to cognitive decline. We sought to use novel techniques, including augmented reality and port... Read More about Adaptative computerized cognitive training decreases mental workload during working memory precision task - A preliminary fNIRS study.

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.

Designing Apps to Track Mental Workload (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M., Shaban, J., Ma, X., Shalliker, M., Midha, S., & Sharples, S. (2023, September). Designing Apps to Track Mental Workload. Paper presented at The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics, Athens, Greece and online

Brain-related wearables are now freely available on the market, and with even wrist-worn devices making estimates about cognitive activity, understanding Cognitive Personal Informatics (CogPI) has become a pressing issue. In this paper, we present a... Read More about Designing Apps to Track Mental Workload.

When High Mental Workload is Good and Low Mental Workload is Bad (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shaban, J., Roy, M., Stephens-Marsh, M., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2023, September). When High Mental Workload is Good and Low Mental Workload is Bad. Paper presented at The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics, Athens, Greece and online

Brain-related wearables are now freely available on the market, and with even wrist-worn devices making estimates about cognitive activity, understanding cognitive personal informatics has become a pressing issue. Mental Workload is an emotionally ag... Read More about When High Mental Workload is Good and Low Mental Workload is Bad.

CHI2023 Course on How to Peer Review for CHI (and Beyond) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M. L. (2023, April). CHI2023 Course on How to Peer Review for CHI (and Beyond). Presented at Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Hamburg, Germany

A key challenge for people that are new to reviewing is pitching the review at the right level, and getting the tone and structure of a review right. This course aims to help participants understand a) the different expectations of different venues a... Read More about CHI2023 Course on How to Peer Review for CHI (and Beyond).