Research Article

Cognitive Load in eCommerce Applications—Measurement and Effects on User Satisfaction

Table 2

Means and (Standard Deviations) for the six major outcome measures for each of the four shops.

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M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD)

Primary task
TCT (secs) 607 (165) 472 (194) 273 (123) 422 (220)
Secondary task
Mean RTs (msecs) 706 (101) 721 (64.5) 692 (98.3) 696 (80.7)
Accuracy (%) 46.4 (18.7) 43.8 (19.7) 51.3 (19.4) 51.1 (20.4)
Subjective measures
NASA-TLX 28.2 (6.3) 26.2 (7.1) 19.7 (8.4) 25.5 (7.4)
Search/Browse 84.3 (2.2) 80.3 (2.0) 63.2 (2.8) 77.3 (2.7)
General satisfaction 5.41 (2.0) 5.97 (1.49) 7.28 (1.6) 5.0 (1.80)