Effect of Gender on Human Performance under the Impact of a Polluted Mobile Human-Computer-Interaction Environment

  • Zulquernain Mallick
  • MM Hasan
  • Zahid A Khan
  • Arshad N Siddiquee

Abstract

This paper presents findings of two experimental studies that were carried out to evaluate the impact of gender, environmental pollution and vibration induced stresses on human performance when the subjects performed readability task in a mobile Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), environment. Eleven subjects (7 males and 4 females) and 4 male subjects participated in the first and second studies respectively. In the first study the gender and the levels of vibration were kept as independent variables whereas, the environmental pollution and the levels of vibration were taken as independent variables in the second study. The dependant variable in both the studies was the average number of literal characters read per minute, which was taken as the measure of human performance. The data obtained was analyzed using two factor analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results indicated that the variable gender, levels of vibration, and pollution were all statistically significant at a significance level of 0.05. The findings of the present work are discussed in the light of previous studies undertaken on the topic and a few conclusions are drawn on the basis of results of the studies. Keywords: Human-Computer-Interaction; Vibration; Pollution; Human Performance; Analysis of Variance. AJSTD Vol.23(1&2) pp.43-53 (2006) The full text is not available at this time. Please contact the author.
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Published
2007-07-26
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