Decoding Mental Workload in Virtual Environments: A fNIRS Study using an Immersive n-back Task

F. Putze; C. Herff; C. Tremmel; T. Schultz; D.J. Krusienski

doi:10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856386

Decoding Mental Workload in Virtual Environments: A fNIRS Study using an Immersive n-back Task

F. Putze^*
, C. Herff
, C. Tremmel
, T. Schultz
, D.J. Krusienski

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a novel paradigm for immersive applications in training, entertainment, rehabilitation, and other domains. In this paper, we investigate the automatic classification of mental workload from brain activity measured through functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in VR. We present results from a study which implements the established n-back task in an immersive visual scene, including physical interaction. Our results show that user workload can be detected from fNIRS signals in immersive VR tasks both person-dependently and -adaptively.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 41ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)
Publisher	IEEE Xplore
Pages	3103-3106
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-1312-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856386
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019

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Decoding Mental Workload in Virtual Environments: A fNIRS Study using an Immersive n-back Task. / Putze, F.; Herff, C.; Tremmel, C. et al.
2019 41ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC). IEEE Xplore, 2019. p. 3103-3106.

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