Assessing recovery from cognitive load through pen input

  • Authors:
  • Ling Luo;Ronnie Taib

  • Affiliations:
  • National ICT Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia;National ICT Australia, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper explores the impact of rest duration on recovery from cognitively demanding tasks, focusing on pen input features as an indicator of load and recovery. We designed a user experiment involving a cognitively loading task with three levels of difficulty, followed by a controlled rest period, and then a fixed difficulty task. The participants answered the tasks by writing alphabet letters on a tablet monitor. Subjective ratings validated the increasing difficulty of the first task (Friedman ANOVA pp