Date of Award

Spring 2024

Thesis Type

Open Access

Degree Name

Honors Bachelor of Arts

Department

Computer Science

Sponsor

Dr Valerie Summet

Committee Member

Dr Rochelle Elva

Committee Member

Dr Jennifer Queen

Abstract

In this thesis, I investigated two input modalities using a concept-building task experiment. I also utilized a Qualtrics survey which had two parts, one with three open-ended questions to gain deeper insights regarding participants’ experience during the experiment. The other section consisted of the NASA-TLX instrument which is used to quantify workload across six subscales: mental demand, physical demand, temporal demand, performance, effort, and frustration. Although not statistically significant, analysis of the data revealed that performance with the keyboard was higher than with the mouse. Mental demand and frustration were also higher with the keyboard. These results aren’t conclusive but future work with a higher sample size could further investigate this and possibly obtain statistically significant results.

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