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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Continuous Assessment of Mental Workload During Complex Human-Machine Interaction: Inferring Cognitive State from Signals External to the Operator.

Axel Roques, Dimitri Keriven Serpollet, Alice Nicolaï, Stéphane Buffat, Yannick James, Nicolas Vayatis, Ioannis Bargiotas, Pierre-Paul Vidal

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Axel RoquesUniversité Paris Cité, Université Paris Saclay, ENS Paris Saclay, CNRS, SSA, INSERM, Centre Borelli, F-75006 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0001-6964-4435
Dimitri Keriven SerpolletUniversité Paris Cité, Université Paris Saclay, ENS Paris Saclay, CNRS, SSA, INSERM, Centre Borelli, F-75006 Paris, France.
Alice NicolaïUniversité Paris Cité, Université Paris Saclay, ENS Paris Saclay, CNRS, SSA, INSERM, Centre Borelli, F-75006 Paris, France.
Stéphane BuffatLaboratoire d'Accidentologie de Biomécanique et du Comportement des Conducteurs, GIE Renault-PSA Groupes, 92000 Nanterre, France.
Yannick JamesTraining & Simulation, Thales AVS France SAS, 95520 Osny, France.
Nicolas VayatisUniversité Paris Cité, Université Paris Saclay, ENS Paris Saclay, CNRS, SSA, INSERM, Centre Borelli, F-75006 Paris, France.
Ioannis BargiotasCIAMS, Inria, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID 0000-0002-1069-1293
Pierre-Paul VidalUniversité Paris Cité, Université Paris Saclay, ENS Paris Saclay, CNRS, SSA, INSERM, Centre Borelli, F-75006 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9548-6135

Funding

ANRT 2019/0295ANRT 2022/0467
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of complex human-machine interfaces (HMIs) has grown rapidly over the last few decades in both industrial and personal contexts. Now more than ever, the study of mental workload (MWL) in HMI operators appears essential: when mental demand exceeds task load, cognitive overload arises, increasing the risk of work-related fatigue or accidents. In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach for the continuous estimation of the MWL of professional helicopter pilots in realistic simulated flights. Physiological and operational parameters were used to train a novel machine-learning model of MWL. Our algorithm achieves good performance (ROC AUC score 0.836 ± 0.081, the maximum F1 score 0.842 ± 0.078 and PR AUC score 0.820 ± 0.097) and shows that the operational information outperforms the physiological signals in terms of predictive power for MWL. Our results pave the way towards intelligent systems able to monitor the MWL of HMI operators in real time and question the relevancy of physiology-derived metrics for this task.

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CognitionMan-Machine SystemsWorkloadAdultAlgorithmsHumansMachine LearningMalemachine learningmental workloadpilotssimulator

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PMID40573511
PMCPMC12197284

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