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A preliminary study of estimating a mental workload with web-browsing using stress biomarkers

Nomura S., Fujita M., Sakamoto T.

Journal of Medical Informatics & Technologies

2015

Vol. 24

53--58

The Recent rapid growth of the information technology aid people to improve the performance in processing their job activities. These changes, in turn, force them to carry out their job activities using computers in the workplace; that results in the increase of somatic and/or mental stresses. In this study, we conducted a preliminary experiment to estimate an impact of web-browsing on human mind and body. Two types of web-browsing tasks, which are a 18-minuetes of continuous web-browsing and an intermittent web-browsing (first 45 second of each 1-minutes interval), were given to the subjects (10 healthy male aged from 20-23) with within-subjects experimental design. With regard to physiological measures, two prominent stress biomarkers, salivary immunoglobulin A (IgA) and cortisol, were employed. Comparing among the task conditions, relatively larger and long-lasting increase of IgA and smaller decrease of cortisol was observed with an intermittent web-browsing despite there was no difference in the psychological state. These results illustrate the difficulty of estimating the mental workload caused by web-browsing and the importance of employing physiological indices.

Increase in cortisol awakening response after two weeks of self-instruction for good sleep

Nomura S., Suguri K., Okamoto Y., Nomura T., Suzuki K., Tanaka H.

Journal of Medical Informatics & Technologies

2010

Vol. 15

169--175

There is growing evidence suggesting that the magnitude of cortisol awaking response (CAR), which is characterized by a profound increase of salivary cortisol secretion after awakening, plausibly reflects the level of a chronic stress, social stress, anxiety, etc. In this study the alternation of CAR at the start and at the end of two weeks session of self-instruction for good sleep was investigated; by which we anticipated that the self-instruction for good sleep would bring-forth a positive affection for the participants, and would result in decline of cortisol awakening response (CAR). Nevertheless, as a result unexpectedly, subjects did not change their sleep and dietary habits along with the instruction, moreover the increased CAR was observed. This result implies that the suggestion of an impractical instruction would solely be taken as a stressful task for participants, even though they know that it is effective to improve their sleep. On the contrary, if one develops an instruction with practicable indication for daily life, it is highly possible to observe a positive effect of the instruction on CAR.