Category: Cognitive workload
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Can stress be measured?
For the past few years, Eydís has been looking into it. She did a cross analysis on different measurements of cognitive workload with respect to the Icelandic flight industry. Cognitive workload, for the purposes of this article is synonymous with stress. The research indicates there are clear differences in measurements when an individual is rested…
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Eydís has successfully defended her PhD thesis!
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.…
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Featured in BBC 4 Tech: Cognitive Workload Research
Last fall Michal was interviewed by a broadcast journalist for the BBC Arabic segment, BBC 4 Tech. The interview was regarding some early research he did with the Cognitive workload monitoring using voice project. The BBC 4 Tech segments have been uploaded onto YouTube with voice-overs in Arabic. Thanks to the BBC team you’ll get…
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LVL goes to Hungary
In September Eydís will be representing our group at the CogInfoCom 2017 Conference. This will be LVL’s second time at CogInfoCom in Hungary, and we hope it will be an exciting conference with valuable insights. She will be presenting her paper “Cognitive workload classification using cardiovascular measures and dynamic features.” This will be Eydís’ last…
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Article Publication in the Periodica Polytechnica Electrical Engineering and Computer Science journal
At CogInfoCom 2016, Eydís Huld Magnusdottir, gave a great presentation about Monitoring Cognitive Workload Using Vocal Tract and Voice Source Features. It was so informative in fact that the Periodica Polytechnica Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a great open access journal, has published it. The article has the same name as the conference paper, Monitoring…
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Pilot tests
The paralinguistic team finished gathering additional data for the Voice patterns in air-traffic control project in the second half of December. The participants are all pilots working for Icelandair that came to us straight after grueling sessions in their flight simulator. We want to thank all the participants and staff of Icelandair for their cooperation!