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The Relationship Between Visual Website Complexity and a User’s Mental Workload: A NeuroIS Perspective

verfasst von : Ricardo Buettner

Erschienen in: Information Systems and Neuroscience

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

I report results from an experiment on the relationship between visual website complexity and users’ mental workload. Applying a pupillary based workload assessment as a NeuroIS methodology, I found indications that a balanced level of navigation complexity, i.e., the number of (sub)menus, in combination with a balanced level of information complexity, is the best choice from a user’s mental workload perspective.

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Metadaten
Titel
The Relationship Between Visual Website Complexity and a User’s Mental Workload: A NeuroIS Perspective
verfasst von
Ricardo Buettner
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41402-7_14