The effect of cognitive load on physiological arousal in a decision-making serious game
2017 (English)In: 2017 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2017 - Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017, p. 153-156, article id 8056587Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The aim of this paper is to investigate how a substantial cognitive load overshadows the physiological arousal effect, in an attempt to study cognitive abilities of participants engaged on decision-making tasks in serious games. Participants were engaged in a dynamic serious game environment displaying online biofeedback based on the physiological measurements of arousal. The pupil diameter was analyzed in relation to the heart rate during a challenging decision-making task. It was found that the moment when a substantial cognitive load overshadows the physiological arousal effect is observable on the pupil diameter in relation to the heart rate. © 2017 IEEE.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017. p. 153-156, article id 8056587
Series
International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, ISSN 2474-0470
Keywords [en]
arousal, cognitive load, electrocardiogram, physiology, pupil diameter, serious games, Biofeedback, Decision making, Electrocardiography, Heart, Neurophysiology, Psychophysiology, Virtual reality, Cognitive ability, Cognitive loads, Game environment, Heart rates, Physiological measurement
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-15606DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2017.8056587ISI: 000425228700023Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85034631890ISBN: 9781509058129 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-15606DiVA, id: diva2:1166183
Conference
9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications, VS-Games, Athens
2017-12-142017-12-142018-10-19Bibliographically approved