Designing Apps to Track Mental Workload

Wilson, Max; Shaban, Jwan; Ma, Xiaobin; Shalliker, Molly; Midha, Serena; Sharples, Sarah

Abstract

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 series of recent design ideas our students have produced focusing on representing the notion of Mental Workload (MWL) to participants as something that future technology might track. While some notions of CogPI will have been considered for e.g. mood and stress tracking, our designs have been built specifically in relation to design metaphors that our prior work have identified as being relevant to MWL.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics
• Conference Location: Athens, Greece and online
• Start Date: Sep 26, 2023
• End Date: Sep 26, 2023
• Deposit Date: Dec 31, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 3, 2024
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/29205372