This is your brain on interfaces: Enhancing usability testing with functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 373-382

  Hirshfield, Leanne M ^a   Gulotta, Rebecca ^b   Hirshfield, Stuart ^a   Sam, Hincks ^a   Russell, Matthew ^a   Ward, Rachel ^a   Williams, Tom ^a   Jacob, Robert ^c  

^a HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Brain computer interaction; FNIRS; Mental workload; Usability

Indexed keywords

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS; BRAIN MEASUREMENT; COGNITIVE DEMANDS; COGNITIVE WORKLOADS; COMPUTER USERS; FNIRS; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MENTAL WORKLOAD; USABILITY; USABILITY TESTING;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 79958130028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1978996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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