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Executive Functions and Their Relationship with Interaction Design

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Human Factors have been for several decades one of the main factors of contention when trying to develop a usable system. From physical to cognitive characteristics and everything in between, the attributes of a user can impact on several aspects of the design of said software. Although there are guidelines for some characteristics there is no definitive model with what characteristics to consider, what metrics to use and their effect on the interface. In this chapter we talk about the effect of some of the executive functions (working memory and cognitive flexibility) depending on the interface design pattern used, and the relationship with the cognitive load produced by the design pattern.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

    Andrés Mejía Figueroa & J. Reyes Juárez Ramírez

  2. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Andalucia, Spain

    David Saldaña Sage

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Mejía Figueroa, A., Juárez Ramírez, J.R., Saldaña Sage, D. (2018). Executive Functions and Their Relationship with Interaction Design. In: Sanchez, M., Aguilar, L., Castañón-Puga, M., Rodríguez-Díaz, A. (eds) Computer Science and Engineering—Theory and Applications. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 143. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74060-7_2

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