Subjective Workload Assessment Technique (SWAT): A User's Guide

Abstract

This report is to serve as a user's guide to accompany software Version 3.1 for the Subjective Workload Assessment Technique (SWAT), a tool for measuring mental workload. The guide has been developed as a how-to manual for implementing SWAT. Specifically, this report begins with a general overview of workload, describes in detail all aspects of the scale development phase, provides general information relating to the event scoring phase, and development phase, provides general information relating to the event scoring phase, and finally goes into a step-by-step explanation of each menu and screen of the program. Various topics are covered including descriptions of the three SWAT dimensions, use of conjoint measurement and scaling, card sort procedures and analysis, methods of prototyping, event scoring, and data analysis. Each how-to section that the user will need has been provided in an appendix so that the appropriate section can be separated from the rest of the report for handy reference. Keywords: Computer program users guide; Mental workload; Subjective workload; Scale development; Conjoint measurement; Conjoint scaling; Event scoring; SWAT.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA215405

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  • Jeine R. Bressler
  • Scott S. Potter

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