Making the case for measuring mental effort

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling, EESSMod 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zugal, Stefan ^a   Pinggera, Jakob ^a   Reijers, Hajo ^b   Reichert, Manfred ^c   Weber, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONCEPTUAL MODELING LANGUAGES; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN MIND; MEASURE OF PERFORMANCE; MENTAL EFFORT;

EID: 84873846524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2424563.2424571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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