Title
Measuring Mental Effort via Entropy in VR
Abstract
Recognizing changes in users' experienced mental effort is a perennial interest in human-computer interaction research particularly in the design of intelligent user interfaces built to adapt to different levels of mental effort. With virtual reality (VR) applications, for example, many measures of mental workload (e.g., secondary tasks) are highly intrusive and can distort what is being measured. In this paper we investigate the entropy of controller movements as an indicator of mental effort that can be measured unobtrusively. We report a proof-of-concept study that manipulates the experienced mental effort using the popular e-crossing task. As expected, the results show that entropy is increased for people with higher mental effort than for people with lower mental effort and that there is a positive relationship with NASA-TLX scores, the benchmark questionnaire for mental effort. Thus, intelligent user interfaces become capable of detecting mental effort in VR on the basis of controller entropy and could recognize when users need assistance in their decision making.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3379336.3381493
IUI '20: 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Cagliari Italy March, 2020
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Mental Workload, Evaluation, Entropy
Conference
978-1-4503-7513-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Reinhardt115.09
Jörn Hurtienne226844.65
Carolin Wienrich326.10