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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2016

Into the Wild: Neuroergonomic Differentiation of Hand-Held and Augmented Reality Wearable Displays during Outdoor Navigation with Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy.

Ryan McKendrick, Raja Parasuraman, Rabia Murtza, Alice Formwalt, Wendy Baccus, Martin Paczynski, Hasan Ayaz

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7 authors.

Ryan McKendrickPsychology Department, Human Factors and Applied Cognition, George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA.
Raja ParasuramanPsychology Department, Human Factors and Applied Cognition, George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA.
Rabia MurtzaPsychology Department, Human Factors and Applied Cognition, George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA.
Alice FormwaltPsychology Department, Human Factors and Applied Cognition, George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA.
Wendy BaccusPsychology Department, Human Factors and Applied Cognition, George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA.
Martin PaczynskiPsychology Department, Human Factors and Applied Cognition, George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA.
Hasan AyazSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA, USA; Department of Family and Community Health, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA, USA; Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Highly mobile computing devices promise to improve quality of life, productivity, and performance. Increased situation awareness and reduced mental workload are two potential means by which this can be accomplished. However, it is difficult to measure these concepts in the "wild". We employed ultra-portable battery operated and wireless functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to non-invasively measure hemodynamic changes in the brain's Prefrontal cortex (PFC). Measurements were taken during navigation of a college campus with either a hand-held display, or an Augmented reality wearable display (ARWD). Hemodynamic measures were also paired with secondary tasks of visual perception and auditory working memory to provide behavioral assessment of situation awareness and mental workload. Navigating with an augmented reality wearable display produced the least workload during the auditory working memory task, and a trend for improved situation awareness in our measures of prefrontal hemodynamics. The hemodynamics associated with errors were also different between the two devices. Errors with an augmented reality wearable display were associated with increased prefrontal activity and the opposite was observed for the hand-held display. This suggests that the cognitive mechanisms underlying errors between the two devices differ. These findings show fNIRS is a valuable tool for assessing new technology in ecologically valid settings and that ARWDs offer benefits with regards to mental workload while navigating, and potentially superior situation awareness with improved display design.

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fNIRShead-mounted displaymental workloadneuroergonomicssituation awarenessspatial navigationworking memory

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PMID27242480
PMCPMC4870997

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