Authors
Leanne Hirshfield and Rebecca Gulotta and Stuart Hirshfield and Sam Hincks and Matt Russell and Rachel Ward and Tom Williams, Rob Jacob
Venue
SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publication Year
2011
This project represents a first step towards bridging the gap between HCI and cognition research. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), we introduce techniques to non-invasively measure a range of cognitive workload states that have implications to HCI research, most directly usability testing. We present a set of usability experiments that illustrates how fNIRS brain measurement provides information about the cognitive demands placed on computer users by different interface designs.