Evaluation of Mental Workload Based on Pursuit Eye Movement

Author

Ishii, M. ; Minochi, Atsushi ; Yamanaka, Keiji ; Chihara, T.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Syst. Design, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

5-7 July 2013

Firstpage

121

Lastpage

124

Abstract

Mental workload (MWL) has been an important concept in Human Factors. In a human-machine system, MWL can explain operator errors at times. MWL is commonly measured by electrocardiography and electroencephalography, but during real-world tasks problems such as noise intrusion make it difficult to estimate mental workload using physical signals. Therefore, the aim of this study was to propose an evaluation index for MWL based on pursuit eye movement. It was examined for participants to follow two kinds of gaze points presented on a rear projector. As a result, it was shown that we experimentally confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed pursuit saccadic intrusions (PSIs) evaluation index, and suggested that it can be used to estimate MWL from pursuit eye movement.

Keywords

eye; human factors; image motion analysis; man-machine systems; object tracking; PSI evaluation index; electrocardiography; electroencephalography; gaze points; human factor; human-machine system; mental workload evaluation; noise intrusion; physical signals; pursuit eye movement; pursuit saccadic intrusion; rear projector; Accidents; Educational institutions; Human factors; Indexes; Speech; System analysis and design; Visualization; eye movements; mental workload; saccadic intrusions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (ICBAKE), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBAKE.2013.24

Filename

6603486