Think before you talk: An empirical study of relationship between speech pauses and cognitive load

Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, OZCHI'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 335-338

  Khawaja, M Asif ^a   Ruiz, Natalie ^a   Chen, Fang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Measurement; Pauses; Speech features

Indexed keywords

ADAPTABLE USER INTERFACES; AUTOMATIC ADAPTATION; COGNITIVE LOAD; COGNITIVE LOAD MEASUREMENT; COGNITIVE LOADS; DUAL-TASKS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HIGH LOAD; LOW LOAD; MODAL MODELS; NATURAL SPEECH; NEW RESULTS; PAUSES; SPEECH FEATURES; TASK FLOWS; TIME SPENT; USABILITY EVALUATION; USER STUDY; WORK ENVIRONMENTS; WORKING MEMORIES;

ECOLOGY; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 70349135412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1517744.1517814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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