A Quantitative Model for Unifying Human Factors with Cognitive Load Theory

Nathan A Sonnenfeld, Joseph R. Keebler

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Abstract

Education remains a severely unpolished domain for the application of human factors principles; although human factors methods and theories thrive in their application within both the learning and training domains. Continued efforts are needed to increase educational outcomes from the human-system interaction perspective. This paper shall continue to investigate how to apply constructs and theory from within the related human factors, human-computer interaction, and usability fields to the domain of instructional design. This paper intends to place human factors, human-computer interaction, and usability measurement methods among those used to evaluate cognitive load for the benefit of instructional design, following a new quantitative model for cognitive load. This effort shall assist in increasing collaboration between the fields of human factors and education, and make a significant contribution to cognitive load theory measurement methods. 
Original languageAmerican English
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
EventProceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2016 Annual Meeting - Washington, DC
Duration: Jan 1 2016 → …

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2016 Annual Meeting
Period1/1/16 → …

Keywords

  • Human Factors
  • human-computer interaction

Disciplines

  • Other Psychology

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