Brain activity and mental workload associated with artistic practice

Maior, Horia A.; Wilson, Max L.; Locke, Caroline; Swann, Debra

Abstract

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 practice. The artists are interested in exposing the hidden cognitive processes involved in their creative practice, in order to reuse or integrate the data into their performances. The researchers are interested in collecting unstructured ‘in the wild’ fNIRS data, and to see how the artists interpret the data retrospectively. We highlight some interesting early examples from the data and describe our on-going plans. We will have completed a second data collection before the workshop.

Citation

Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., Locke, C., & Swann, D. (2018). Brain activity and mental workload associated with artistic practice

• Conference Name: CHI 2018 Artistic BCI Workshop
• Start Date: Apr 21, 2018
• End Date: Apr 26, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Feb 20, 2018
• Publication Date: Apr 21, 2018
• Deposit Date: Mar 26, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 21, 2018
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Artistic BCI; fNIRS; Mental Workload; Making
• Public URL: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/50631
• Related Public URLs: https://chi2018.acm.org/accepted-workshops/; https://artisticbci.wordpress.com/; https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3173574
• Copyright Statement: Copyright information regarding this work can be found at the following address: http://eprints.nottingh.../end_user_agreement.pdf
• Additional Information: Workshop is part of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018), Montreal, Canada, 21-26 April 2018.