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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

The Influence of Task Characteristics on Multiple Objective and Subjective Cognitive Load Measures

Authors : Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Mirhoseini, Pierre-Majorique Léger, Sylvain Sénécal

Published in: Information Systems and Neuroscience

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Using Electroencephalography (EEG), this study aims at extracting three features from instantaneous mental workload measure and link them to different aspect of the workload construct. An experiment was designed to investigate the effect of two workload inductors (Task difficulty and uncertainty) on extracted features along with a subjective measure of mental workload. Results suggest that both subjective and objective measures of workload are able to capture the effect of task difficulty; however only accumulated load was found to be sensitive to task uncertainty. We discuss that the three EEG measures derived from instantaneous workload can be used as criteria for designing more efficient information systems.

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Metadata
Title
The Influence of Task Characteristics on Multiple Objective and Subjective Cognitive Load Measures
Authors
Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Mirhoseini
Pierre-Majorique Léger
Sylvain Sénécal
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Information Systems and Neuroscience

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-41401-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-41402-7

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41402-7_19

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