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We discuss the concept of stationarity as a precondition of pupillary-based assessments of a user’s mental workload and report results from an experiment differentiating stationarity and non-stationarity pupillary size signals.
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Buettner, R., Scheuermann, I.F., Koot, C., Rössle, M., Timm, I.J. (2018). Stationarity of a User’s Pupil Size Signal as a Precondition of Pupillary-Based Mental Workload Evaluation. In: Davis, F., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67431-5_22
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