Using galvanic skin response for cognitive load measurement in arithmetic and reading tasks

Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 420-423

  Nourbakhsh, Nargess ^a,b   Wang, Yang ^a   Chen, Fang ^a   Calvo, Rafael A ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cognitive load; galvanic skin response; physiological signals; spectral analysis; temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

ANOVA TEST; ARITHMETIC TASKS; COGNITIVE LOAD MEASUREMENT; COGNITIVE LOADS; COGNITIVE WORKLOADS; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGICAL INDICATORS; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; TASK DIFFICULTY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84872310067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2414536.2414602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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