After the success of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions, we are glad to present the 4th International Symposium on Human Mental Workload: Models and Applications (H-WORKLOAD 2020) which will be held in Granada (December 3-5th, 2020) at the University of Granada, Spain.

The scientific programme of H-WORKLOAD 2020 will consist of regular and technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international programme committee, as well as keynote talks and tutorials given by leading experts in their fields.
The symposium aims to become the premier event for discussion of emerging research on mental workload, its models and applications. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines including human factors, computer science, psychology, education, and neuroscience and provide a mechanism for the exchange of ideas and technologies between a worldwide audience of academics and industrial scientists.

We solicit submissions, in the form of FULL and SHORT papers, on previously unpublished research work on human mental workload covering all disciplines and domains. Example areas include but are not limited to:

Mental workload theory and frameworks

Formal and computational new models of mental workload
Analysis of dimensions and metrics of mental workload
Cognitive load theory and cognitive load measurement in Education
Mental workload and analysis of cognitive capacity/information processing

Measurement of mental workload

Physiological and neurological measures
Self-reporting and psychological measures
Task performance measures
Analytic measures

Mental workload in context

Mental Workload and impact of fatigue
Mental overload/underload effects
Mental workload and its impact on operators/operations, Safety/risk, situation awareness
Mental workload in teams and collaborative aspects

Applications of mental workload in practice

Mental workload and interaction design
Mental workload and human machine interfaces
Mental workload and user experience
Mental workload and assistive technologies
Mental workload in education and instructional design
Mental workload and simulation
Mental workload and prototyping
Mental workload and user studies

Mental workload in safety critical domains

Transportation (road, rail, aviation, maritime)
Medical and healthcare
Oil and gas
Process industries and manufacturing
Nuclear

The conference is supported by:

University of Granada
Irish Ergonomics Society
Technological University Dublin
Springer