creators_name: Bonnardel, N creators_name: Piolat, A type: journalp datestamp: 2004-05-06 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:33 metadata_visibility: show title: Design activities: how to analyze cognitive effort associated to cognitive treatments? ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: Design activities, cognitive effort, mental load, time processing abstract: Working memory issues are important in many real activities. Thus, measuring cognitive effort (or mental load) has been a main research topic for years in cognitive ergonomics, though no consensual method to study such aspect has been proposed. In addition, we argue that cognitive effort has to be related to an analysis of the evolution of cognitive processes, which has been called "time processing". Towards this end, we present and discuss paradigms that have been used for years to study writing activities and, in experiments reported in this paper, for studying design activities, such as computer-graphic tasks or web site design date: 2003 date_type: published publication: The International Journal of Cognitive Technology volume: 8 number: 1 pagerange: 6-15 refereed: TRUE citation: Bonnardel, N and Piolat, A (2003) Design activities: how to analyze cognitive effort associated to cognitive treatments? [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/3606/1/BonnardelPiolatCT2003.pdf