Cognitive Workload

Work on how much mental effort driving and in-vehicle tasks demand, how that demand is measured, and how drivers allocate attention under it.

What's here. Workload measurement (subjective scales, secondary-task and detection-response methods) and neuro workload indices from EEG, pupillometry, and cardiac measures. Also the mental demand of particular driving and in-vehicle tasks, dual task performance, attention allocation, attention, and situational awareness as measured in a driving task.

What isn't here.

• situation-awareness theory, its models, and cross-domain measurement debates — General Human Factors (Cross-Domain). situational awareness here means SA assessed inside driving studies. The construct itself sits under situation awareness theory in General Human Factors, which is also the category this one co-occurs with most.
• distraction from phones, passengers, billboards, and other competing tasks — Driver Distraction. Driver Distraction is the sibling category in the same area. Papers organized around the source of a competing task, including cognitive distraction, belong there; work here is about demand and how it is quantified.
• gaze-based attention: scanning patterns, peripheral attention, hazard anticipation — Visual Perception & Hazard Perception in Driving. attention allocation here is resource allocation under load. peripheral attention and anticipation are separate topics under Visual Perception & Hazard Perception.