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Work Hard, Play Harder: Intense Games Enable Recovery from High Mental Workload Tasks Open

Linqi Zhao, Michael Thomas Knierim, Max L. Wilson, Patrick Dickinson, Horia A. Maior · 2025

Exploring Flow in Real-World Knowledge Work Using Discrete cEEGrid Sensors Open

Michael Thomas Knierim, Fabio Stano, Fabio Kurz, Andrew I. Heusch, Max L. Wilson · 2025

Exploring Flow in Real-World Knowledge Work Using Discreet cEEGrid Sensors Open

Michael Thomas Knierim, Fabio Stano, Franz Kurz, Andrew I. Heusch, Max L. Wilson · 2025

Flow, a state of deep task engagement, is associated with optimal experience and well-being, making its detection a prolific HCI research focus. While physiological sensors show promise for flow detection, most studies are lab-based. Furth…

Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment Open

Gift Odoh, Aleksandra Landowska, Emily M. Crowe, Khairidine Benali, Sue Cobb , et al. · 2024

Broadening the mind: how emerging neurotechnology is reshaping HCI and interactive system design Open

Christina Schneegass, Max L. Wilson, Jwan Shaban, Jasmin Niess, Francesco Chiossi , et al. · 2024

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 ad…

The CHI’24 Workshop on the Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics Open

Max L. Wilson, Jwan Shaban, Horia A. Maior, Christina Schneegass, Anna L. Cox · 2024

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. …

Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload Open

Huimin Tang, Johann Benerradi, Horia A. Maior, Matthew Pike, Aleksandra Landowska , et al. · 2024

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…

Adaptative computerized cognitive training decreases mental workload during working memory precision task - A preliminary fNIRS study Open

Aleksandra Landowska, Max L. Wilson, Michael P. Craven, Kyle Harrington · 2023

The Power of Fear: Exploring the Neural Responses to Horror Scenes in Different Audiovisual Modes Open

Xiangning Liang, Aleksandra Landowska, Richard Ramchurn, Callum Berger, Max L. Wilson , et al. · 2023

Neurocinematics is an emerging interdisciplinary field at the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction, Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), and cinematics, that explores the use of brain and physiological data (such as functional Near …

CHI2023 Course on How to Peer Review for CHI (and Beyond) Open

Max L. Wilson · 2023

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 differe…

Benchmarking framework for machine learning classification from fNIRS data Open

Johann Benerradi, Jérémie Clos, Aleksandra Landowska, Michel Valstar, Max L. Wilson · 2023

Background While efforts to establish best practices with functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signal processing have been published, there are still no community standards for applying machine learning to fNIRS data. Moreover, th…

Understanding the patterns that neural networks learn from chemical spectra Open

Laura Rieger, Max L. Wilson, Tejs Vegge, Eibar Flores · 2023

We train a convolutional neural network to classify functional groups from infrared spectra. With explainability methods, we show the model uses the presence and absence of peaks, at fundamental and anharmonic frequencies for accurate clas…

The future of manufacturing: Utopia or dystopia? Open

Adrian Marinescu, Elizabeth M. Argyle, Joshua Duvnjak, Max L. Wilson, Glyn Lawson , et al. · 2022

Digital manufacturing technologies (DMTs) have the potential to transform industry productivity, but their introduction into the workplace is often a complex process, requiring not only technical expertise but also an awareness of ethical …

Ethical Concerns and Perceptions of Consumer Neurotechnology from Lived Experiences of Mental Workload Tracking Open

Serena Midha, Max L. Wilson, Sarah Sharples · 2022

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…

Understanding the Ethical Concerns for Neurotechnology in the Future of Work Open

Wendy L. Martinez, Johann Benerradi, Serena Midha, Horia A. Maior, Max L. Wilson · 2022

Advances in automation and autonomous systems means that the future of work will involve even more cognitive effort. For those in already cognitively demanding work, many of us aim to optimise our effort and productivity to achieve more in…

P-Lite: A study of parallel coordinate plot literacy Open

Elif E. Fırat, Alena Denisova, Max L. Wilson, Robert S. Laramee · 2022

Visualization literacy, the ability to interpret and comprehend visual designs, is recognized as an essential skill by the visualization community. We identify and investigate barriers to comprehending parallel coordinates plots (PCPs), on…

Lived Experiences of Mental Workload in Everyday Life Open

Serena Midha, Max L. Wilson, Sarah Sharples · 2022

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 …

Human-Computer Interaction and the Future of Work Open

Chiwork Collective, Naveena Karusala, Nabil Al Nahin, Diana Tosca, Alberta A. Ansah , et al. · 2022

Advances in computing technology, changing policies, and slow crises are rapidly changing the way we work. Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a critical aspect of these trends, to understand how workers contend with emerging technologies …

The Impact of Motion Scaling and Haptic Guidance on Operators’ Workload and Performance in Teleoperation Open

Soran Parsa, Horia A. Maior, Alex Reeve Elliott Thumwood, Max L. Wilson, Marc Hanheide , et al. · 2022

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 teleoperat…

Workplace 4.0: Exploring the Implications of Technology Adoption in Digital Manufacturing on a Sustainable Workforce Open

Natalie Leesakul, Anne‐Marie Oostveen, Iveta Eimontaite, Max L. Wilson, Richard Hyde · 2022

As part of the Industry 4.0 movement, the introduction of digital manufacturing technologies (DMTs) poses various concerns, particularly the impact of technology adoption on the workforce. In consideration of adoption challenges and implic…

Perceptions of Cognitive Training Games and Assessment Technologies for Dementia: Acceptability Study With Patient and Public Involvement Workshops Open

Kyle Harrington, Michael P. Craven, Max L. Wilson, Aleksandra Landowska · 2022

Background Cognitive training and assessment technologies offer the promise of dementia risk reduction and a more timely diagnosis of dementia, respectively. Cognitive training games may help reduce the lifetime risk of dementia by helping…

Inferring Transportation Staff Workload from Wearables: Railway Staff User Acceptance Factors Open

Abigail Fowler, Catherine Harvey, Max L. Wilson, Sarah Sharples · 2022

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Zeyang Liu, Ke Zhou, Jiaxin Mao, Max L. Wilson · 2021

Conversational search systems, such as Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana, provide a new search paradigm where users are allowed, via natural language dialogues, to communicate with search systems. Evaluating such systems is very chall…

Rank-1 CNN for mental workload classification from EEG Open

Sara Sedlar, Johann Benerradi, Côme Le Breton, Rachid Deriche, Théodore Papadopoulo , et al. · 2021

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can be separated into two main types: active and passive BCIs (Clerc et al. 2016). A BCI can be qualified of passive when the system uses signals involuntarily generated by the user. More specifically, this…

Meta-evaluation of Conversational Search Evaluation Metrics Open

Zeyang Liu, Ke Zhou, Max L. Wilson · 2021

Conversational search systems, such as Google assistant and Microsoft Cortana, enable users to interact with search systems in multiple rounds through natural language dialogues. Evaluating such systems is very challenging, given that any …

Searching Twitter: Separating the Tweet from the Chaff Open

Jonathan Hurlock, Max L. Wilson · 2021

Within the millions of digital communications posted in online social networks, there is undoubtedly some valuable and useful information. Although a large portion of social media content is considered to be babble, research shows that peo…

Perceptions of Cognitive Training Games and Assessment Technologies for Dementia: Acceptability Study With Patient and Public Involvement Workshops (Preprint) Open

Kyle Harrington, Michael P. Craven, Max L. Wilson, Aleksandra Landowska · 2021

BACKGROUND Cognitive training and assessment technologies offer the promise of dementia risk reduction and a more timely diagnosis of dementia, respectively. Cognitive training games may help reduce the lifetime risk of dementia by helpin…

Exploring User Opinion on the Benefits of Cognitive Games Through an Online Walkthrough and Interview Open

Kyle Harrington, Michael P. Craven, Max L. Wilson, Aleksandra Landowska · 2021

Measuring Mental Workload Variations in Office Work Tasks using fNIRS Open

Serena Midha, Horia A. Maior, Max L. Wilson, Sarah Sharples · 2020

Contesting control: journeys through surrender, self-awareness and looseness of control in embodied interaction Open

Steve Benford, Richard Ramchurn, Joe Marshall, Max L. Wilson, Matthew Pike , et al. · 2020

As Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) engages with technologies that sense and actuate the body, there is a need to reconsider the human bodily experience. We present three case studies that each involve different forms of bodily experience:…

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