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  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Biomedical Engineering

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  • Human performance is influenced by available mental resources, which fluctuate with task demands and environmental factors.
  • Monitoring cognitive load in naturalistic settings requires integrating task-induced demands with situational influences.
  • Previous methods for assessing mental effort often lack generalizability across individuals and real-world scenarios.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the feasibility of decoding experienced mental effort using a multimodal approach.
  • To develop and test a machine learning architecture for combining physiological signals to predict mental effort.
  • To establish a foundation for generalized, cross-individual mental state monitoring in realistic applications.

Main Methods:

  • A multimodal study involving 18 participants performing a demanding task with emotional distraction.
  • Simultaneous recording of respiratory, ocular, cardiac, and brain activity (functional near-infrared spectroscopy - fNIRS).
  • Development of a multimodal machine learning architecture including feature engineering, optimization, and cross-subject classification.

Main Results:

  • The multimodal machine learning architecture successfully decoded experienced mental effort.
  • The approach reliably distinguished between two distinct levels of mental effort.
  • The proposed method demonstrated reduced overfitting and enhanced classification accuracy.

Conclusions:

  • Multimodal physiological data combined with machine learning can effectively predict mental effort.
  • This approach offers a promising pathway for developing generalized mental state monitoring systems.
  • The findings support the potential for real-time cognitive state assessment in various applications.