Development of a facial skin temperature-based methodology for non-intrusive mental workload measurement

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 83-94

  Or, Calvin K L ^a   Duffy, Vincent G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial skin temperature; Mental workload; Non intrusive physiological measure; Thermography

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547668616     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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