Language and Voice Lab

We are pleased to announce that Eydís has successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Cognitive workload classification with psychophysiological signals for monitoring in safety critical situations” on 18th of January. Over the past few years, Eydís has worked on a dissertation studying the effect an increased cognitive workload has on acoustic and cardiovascular signals. She collected data from over 100 participants in a simulated environment, which she analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The key contribution of her thesis is in using a signal processing approach and showing that an involuntary response of the cardiovascular system can very accurately reflect one’s mental effort during a task. The thesis is a result of her cooperation with Isavia, and their effort to improve management of people working in an air traffic control environment.

Congratulations Eydís!