NMD lecturer Alwin de Rooij, Iris Wijers, and NMD alumnus Manon Marinussen have received the “Best paper award” at the 32nd European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics. The paper develops a theoretical basis for “augmented interoception“, which details a novel way to use sensing technology to enable people to discover new relationships between their physiological changes and subjective inner experiences.
The paper further details an experiment where participants use a technology that translates their eye’s pupil size, which is normally not accessible to the biological senses, into audible sound in real-time during several thinking tasks. The results of the study suggested that the participants were able, to some extent, to learn new relationships between changes in their thinking processes (e.g., experiences of effort) that correlate with changes in their eye’s pupils, and the sounds that the technology produced.
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