The importance of Human Mental Workload in Web design

WEBIST 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 403-409

  Longo, Luca ^a   Rusconi, Fabio ^a   Noce, Lucia ^a   Barrett, Stephen ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Human factors; Human Mental Workload; Interaction Design; Usability; Web Design

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; NASA; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE; CURRENT INTERACTIONS; DESIGN PRACTICE; GOOGLE+; HUMAN MENTAL WORKLOADS; INTERACTION DESIGN; MENTAL WORKLOAD ASSESSMENTS; USABILITY; WEB INTERFACE; WIKIPEDIA;

WEB DESIGN;

EID: 84864868048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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