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The current research designed an experiment to investigate the effects on three important task factors in dynamic visual information presentation on mental workload as reflected in the eye movement parameters. Ten subjects tracked the scanning line at two different speeds. They were required to respond to a designed targets presented at two different frequency. The difficulty of the reaction time task was manipulated by the difference between a simple reaction task and a physical match task. Reaction time, pupil diameter and eye movement speed were collected to observed the impacts of three important task factors to the human information processing load. The result proved that reaction time was significantly affected by the task difficulty and target presentation frequency while eye movement speed was affected by the tracking speed and target presentation frequency. The magnitude of increase and curve amplitude and standard deviation of the pupil diameter can partially explain the increase in information processing load due to increase in eye movement speed.Keyword: mental load, eye movement speed, pupil diameter
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