Evaluating mental workload while interacting with computer-generated artificial environments

Entertainment Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-69

  Di Stasi, Leandro Luigi ^a   Antolí, Adoración ^a   Cañas, José Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Eye movements; Mental fatigue; Microworld; Saccadic peak velocity; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; EYE MOVEMENTS;

COGNITIVE LOADS; MENTAL FATIGUE; MICROWORLD; PEAK VELOCITIES; TASK COMPLEXITY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84872039115     PISSN: 18759521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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