Effects of music tempo and task difficulty on multi-attribute decision-making: An eye-tracking approach

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 130-143

  Day, Rong Fuh ^a   Lin, Chien Huang ^b   Huang, Wen Hung ^a   Chuang, Sheng Hsiung ^a  

^a SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Background music; Eye tracking; Multi attribute decision making; Music tempo; Search pattern

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BACKGROUND MUSIC; EYE-TRACKING; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION-MAKING; MUSIC TEMPO; SEARCH PATTERN;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 54449085484     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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