Title
Using Psychophysiological Sensors to Assess Mental Workload During Web Browsing.
Abstract
Knowledge of the mental workload induced by a Web page is essential for improving users' browsing experience. However, continuously assessing the mental workload during a browsing task is challenging. To address this issue, this paper leverages the correlation between stimuli and physiological responses, which are measured with high-frequency, non-invasive psychophysiological sensors during very short span windows. An experiment was conducted to identify levels of mental workload through the analysis of pupil dilation measured by an eye-tracking sensor. In addition, a method was developed to classify mental workload by appropriately combining different signals (electrodermal activity (EDA), electrocardiogram, photoplethysmo-graphy (PPG), electroencephalogram (EEG), temperature and pupil dilation) obtained with non-invasive psychophysiological sensors. The results show that the Web browsing task involves four levels of mental workload. Also, by combining all the sensors, the efficiency of the classification reaches 93.7%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18020458
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
psychophysiological sensors,mental workload,Web browsing tasks,machine learning
Signal processing,Pupillary response,Web page,Workload,Electronic engineering,Human–computer interaction,Web navigation,Engineering,Electroencephalography
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
18
2.0
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
21
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Angel Jimenez-Molina1464.75
Cristian Retamal230.39
Hernan Lira330.39