ANÁLISE DA CARGA MENTAL DE ESTUDANTES E PROFISSIONAIS DE TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMAÇÃO

Abstract

The NASA-TLX is a multidimensional instrument used to measure mental workload. It will be used to conduct the evaluation of mental workload for the activities of the students of Information Technology in order to understand the difficulties and productivity to determine factors of cognitive and physical burden and future consequences at work. This is a cross-sectional, exploratory study observatory, using self-administered instrument in four groups of subjects dealing software development, and has already been applied in two classes on different occasions. Data is being collected through a questionnaire containing six dimensions with responses ranging from 1 to 20, with 1 being low and 20 very high. Are 79 respondents, 77.2% men, 48.1% are in the range 17-20 years old, 62% indicate that mental workload is high, 64% indicate that the temporal load is high.

Index Terms - Ergonomics; Mental Workload; NASA-TLX; Information Technology.