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Investigation of the Relationship Between Visual Website Complexity and Users’ Mental Workload: A NeuroIS Perspective

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Information Systems and Neuroscience

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We report promising research-in-progress results from an ongoing experiment on the relationship between visual website complexity and users’ mental workload. Applying pupillary based workload assessment as a NeuroIS methodology we found indications that navigation complexity, i.e., the number of (sub)menus, is more problematic than information complexity.

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  1. FOM University of Applied Sciences, MIS-Institute, Munich, Germany

    Ricardo Buettner

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  1. Walton College of Business (room 216), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA

    Fred D. Davis

  2. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria & University of Linz, Steyr, Austria

    René Riedl

  3. University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Jan vom Brocke

  4. HEC Montreal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Pierre-Majorique Léger

  5. Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA

    Adriane B. Randolph

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Buettner, R. (2015). Investigation of the Relationship Between Visual Website Complexity and Users’ Mental Workload: A NeuroIS Perspective. In: Davis, F., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18702-0_16

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