Stress Response Caused by System Response Time when Searching for Information on the Internet

Human Factors

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 615-621

  Trimmel, Michael ^a   Meixner Pendleton, Monika ^a   Haring, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PHYSIOLOGY;

SYSTEM RESPONSE TIME (SRT);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; JOB STRESS; MALE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; SKILL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 1442275269     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/hfes.45.4.615.27084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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