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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 3, Pages 233-238Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8760(00)00191-4
Keywords
principal components analysis; HRV; plethysmogram; perspiration; NASA-TLX; mental workload; subjective
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This paper suggests a way to integrate different parameters into one index and results obtained by a newly developed index. The multivariate workload evaluation index, which integrates physiological parameters and one subjective parameter through Principle Components Analysis, was proposed to characterize task specific responses and individual differences in response patterns to mental tasks. Three different types of mental tasks were performed by 12 male participants. Heart rate variability, finger plethysmogram amplitude, and perspiration were used as physiological parameters. Three subscales, mental demand, temporal demand and effort out of six subscales in the NASA-Task Load Index were used as subjective scores. These parameters were standardized within each participant and then combined. It was possible to assess workload using this method from two different aspects, i.e. physiological and subjective, simultaneously (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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