Analogy and other sources of difficulty in novices' very first text-editing
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Human Factors Psychology
Dual-task interference and elementary mental mechanisms
Attention and performance XIV (silver jubilee volume)
Decision making under time pressure: a model for information systems research
Information and Management
Effects of task difficulty on pilot workload
CIE '96 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computers and industrial engineering
Task difficulty in information searching behavior: expected difficulty and experienced difficulty
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Creating a cognitive metric of programming task difficulty
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering
A framework and methodology for studying the causes of software errors in programming systems
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Can search systems detect users' task difficulty?: some behavioral signals
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Deciding when to switch tasks in time-critical multitasking
Cognitive Systems Research
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The present study investigates how task difficulty and time constraint affect prospective memory ProM performance in programmer multitasking N = 60. The results indicate that an increase in task difficulty and time constraint has a detrimental effect on ProM performance. Moreover, participants are able to successfully complete fewer difficult programs as compared to easier programs regardless of time constraint. Analysis shows that difficulty of the programming problems does not necessarily have a significant effect on cognitive workload in short, workload experienced by the programmers. Time constraint has a significant effect on workload experienced by the programmers. The results not only suggest a ProM performance decrement under high urgency HU as compared to low urgency LU but also show that time constraint has a significant effect on workload. Multiple regression analysis reveals that temporal demand is the most critical dimension of workload which explains 46% of the variation.