Toward understanding the relationship between task complexity and task performance

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6775 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 192-200

  Liu, Peng ^a   Li, Zhizhong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS; SELF EFFICACY; TASK COMPLEXITY; TASK DIFFICULTY; TASK PERFORMANCE; INFLUENCING MECHANISMS; TASK CHARACTERISTICS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79960087351     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21660-2_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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