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An Integrated Approach of Mental Workload Assessment

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Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes

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There are a lot of methods and instruments trying to assess mental workload reliable and independent from specific use cases or situations. Each method has its own strengths and weaknesses depending on the situation and the on individual person. Attempting to improve each approach separately would indeed allow a further context of use, but do not lead to a global reliability growth. Within this work a new approach is suggested by combining various ocular parameters adapting the individual person. The results of this study show clearly the advantages in mental workload assessment of an individual adapted set of variables in contrast to one variable trying to fit a collectivity of people. This new preparation considering six physiological ocular variables in two different contexts of use can be one step further to a more reliable and global way to assess mental workload.

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This study was conducted within the BMBF project AMIKA (Development of an adaptive and multi-modal interface for complex automation systems).

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  1. Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft und Betriebsorganisation, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Marc Schneider

  2. ifab-Institute of Human and Industrial Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Barbara Deml

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  1. ifab-Institute of Human and Industrial Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Barbara Deml

  2. REFA-Institut e.V., Dortmund, Germany

    Patricia Stock

  3. Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Ralph Bruder

  4. Institute of Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Christopher Marc Schlick

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Schneider, M., Deml, B. (2016). An Integrated Approach of Mental Workload Assessment. In: Deml, B., Stock, P., Bruder, R., Schlick, C.M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48661-0_13

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