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Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Tang, H., Benerradi, J., Maior, H. A., Pike, M., Landowska, A., & Wilson, M. L. (2024). Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3627508.3638313

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.

Designing for Reflection on our Daily Mental Workload (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Shaban, J., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2023). Designing for Reflection on our Daily Mental Workload.

This paper presents a research plan, at the outset of new doctoral research, designing for reflection on cognitive personal informatics and self-tracking of Mental Workload. The research will build upon the Mental Workload cycle, considering how peop... Read More about Designing for Reflection on our Daily Mental Workload.

CHI2023 Course on How to Peer Review for CHI (and Beyond) (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Wilson, M. L. (2023). CHI2023 Course on How to Peer Review for CHI (and Beyond). In CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3574183

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).

Ethical Concerns and Perceptions of Consumer Neurotechnology from Lived Experiences of Mental Workload Tracking (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Midha, S., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2022). Ethical Concerns and Perceptions of Consumer Neurotechnology from Lived Experiences of Mental Workload Tracking. In FAccT '22: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (564-573). https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3533119

With rapid growth in the development of consumer neurotechnology, it is imperative to consider the ethical implications that this might have in order to minimise consumer harm. Whilst ethical and legal guidelines for commercialisation have previously... Read More about Ethical Concerns and Perceptions of Consumer Neurotechnology from Lived Experiences of Mental Workload Tracking.

Lived Experiences of Mental Workload in Everyday Life (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Midha, S., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2022). Lived Experiences of Mental Workload in Everyday Life. In CHI '22 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-16). https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517690

We can now buy consumer brain-computer interface devices to help us meditate and focus, but what are we aiming to achieve? Mental workload (MWL) is an established concept, and as a form of personal data could be useful for making positive life change... Read More about Lived Experiences of Mental Workload in Everyday Life.

The Impact of Motion Scaling and Haptic Guidance on Operators’ Workload and Performance in Teleoperation (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Parsa, S., Maior, H. A., Thumwood, A. R. E., Wilson, M. L., Hanheide, M., & Esfahani, A. G. (2022). The Impact of Motion Scaling and Haptic Guidance on Operators’ Workload and Performance in Teleoperation. In CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Article No.: 253). https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519814

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.

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Dong, M., Husain, M., Brooks, D., Wilson, M., Craven, M., Destrebecq, F., …Baden-Kristensen, K. (2019). Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention. In K. Niedderrer, G. Ludden, R. Cain, & C. Wölfel (Eds.), International MinD Conference 2019 - Designing with and for People with Dementia: Well-being, Empowerment and Happiness (151-154)

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major cause of the rapidly growing and crushing aging challenge that threatens to economically undermine today's healthcare system. AD prevalence will grow to over 100 million cases in 2050. AD is incurable but can be pr... Read More about Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention.

Exploring Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Mental Workload using fNIRS Data from HCI Tasks (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Benerradi, J., Maior, H. A., Marinescu, A., Clos, J., & Wilson, M. L. (2019). Exploring Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Mental Workload using fNIRS Data from HCI Tasks. In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3363384.3363392

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.

Improvising a Live Score to an Interactive Brain-Controlled Film (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ramchurn, R., Martinez-Avila, J., Martindale, S., Chamberlain, A., Wilson, M. L., & Benford, S. (2019). Improvising a Live Score to an Interactive Brain-Controlled Film.

We report on the design and deployment of systems for the performance of live score accompaniment to an interactive movie by a Networked Musical Ensemble. In this case, the audiovisual content of the movie is selected in real time based on user input... Read More about Improvising a Live Score to an Interactive Brain-Controlled Film.

How Stress and Mental Workload are Connected (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Alsuraykh, N. H., Wilson, M. L., Tennent, P., & Sharples, S. (2019). How Stress and Mental Workload are Connected. In PervasiveHealth'19: Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (371-376). https://doi.org/10.1145/3329189.3329235

Mental Workload (MWL) can be both good and bad; we can thrive under high MWL, or our performance can drop if the demands become either too low or too high. Similarly, stress is not always bad, short term stress can be beneficial to overcome a challen... Read More about How Stress and Mental Workload are Connected.

From Director's Cut to User's Cut: to Watch a Brain-Controlled Film is to Edit it (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ramchurn, R., Martindale, S., Wilson, M. L., & Benford, S. (2019). From Director's Cut to User's Cut: to Watch a Brain-Controlled Film is to Edit it. In CHI '19: proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300378

© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Introducing interactivity to films has proven a longstanding and difficult challenge due to their narrative-driven, linear and theatre-based nature. Previous research has suggested that Brain-Computer Int... Read More about From Director's Cut to User's Cut: to Watch a Brain-Controlled Film is to Edit it.

The Multi-Stage Experience: the Simulated Work Task Approach to Studying Information Seeking Stages (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Huurdeman, H., Kamps, J., & Wilson, M. L. (2019). The Multi-Stage Experience: the Simulated Work Task Approach to Studying Information Seeking Stages.

This experience paper shines more light on a simulated work task approach to studying information seeking stages. This explicit multistage approach was first utilized in Huurdeman, Wilson, and Kamps [14] to investigate the utility of search user inte... Read More about The Multi-Stage Experience: the Simulated Work Task Approach to Studying Information Seeking Stages.

Enslaved to the Trapped Data: A Cognitive Work Analysis of Medical Systematic Reviews (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Knight, I. A., Wilson, M. L., Brailsford, D. F., & Milic-Frayling, N. (2019). Enslaved to the Trapped Data: A Cognitive Work Analysis of Medical Systematic Reviews. In Proceedings of 2019 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (203-212). https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298937

Systematic reviews are a comprehensive and parameterised form of literature review, found in most disciplines, that involve exhaustive analyses and rigorous interpretation of prior literature. Performing systematic reviews, however, can involve repet... Read More about Enslaved to the Trapped Data: A Cognitive Work Analysis of Medical Systematic Reviews.

When size matters: Towards evaluating perceivability of choropleths (2018)
Conference Proceeding
McNabb, L., Laramee, R. S., & Wilson, M. L. (2018). When size matters: Towards evaluating perceivability of choropleths. In G. Tam, & F. Vidal (Eds.), EG UK Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (163-171). https://doi.org/10.2312/cgvc.20181221

Choropleth maps are an invaluable visualization type for mapping geo-spatial data. One advantage to a choropleth map over other geospatial visualizations such as cartograms is the familiarity of a non-distorted landmass. However, this causes challeng... Read More about When size matters: Towards evaluating perceivability of choropleths.

Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Wilson, M. L., Sharon, N., Maior, H. A., Midha, S., Craven, M. P., & Sharples, S. (2018). Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker. In CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3170665

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.

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

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.

#Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Ramchurn, R., Wilson, M. L., Martindale, S., & Benford, S. (2018). #Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie. In CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–4). https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3186481

While many still consider interactive movies an unrealistic idea, current delivery platforms like Netflix, commercial VR, and the proliferation of wearable sensors mean that adaptive and responsive entertainment experiences are an immediate reality.... Read More about #Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie.

How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Alsuraykh, N. H., Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., Tennent, P., & Sharples, S. (2018). How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload. In CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188646

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.

Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Wilson, M. L., Alsuraykh, N., & Maior, H. A. (2017). Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS.

Gathering neuro-physiological data during user studies, and analysing the continuous data they produce, typically involves making a tradeoff between detail and practical utility. is paper describes our long-term work-in-progress towards developing... Read More about Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS.