Skip to main content
. 2009 Mar;13(1):44–68. doi: 10.1177/1084713808330207

Table A.1.

NASA-Task Load Index Subscales

Endpoints Description
Subscale
 Mental demand Low/high How much mental and perceptual activity was required (e.g., thinking, deciding, calculating, remembering, looking, searching, etc.)? Was the task easy or demanding, simple or complex, exacting or forgiving?
 Time demand Low/high How much time pressure did you feel due to the rate or pace at which the tasks or task elements occurred? Was the pace slow and leisurely or rapid and frantic?
 Performance Perfect/failure How successful do you think you were in accomplishing the goals of the task set by the experimenter (or yourself)? How satisfied were you with your performance in accomplishing these goals?
 Effort Low/high How hard did you have to work (mentally and physically) to accomplish your level of performance?
 Frustration level Low/high How insecure, discouraged, irritated, stressed, and annoyed versus secure, gratified, content, relaxed, and complacent did you feel during the task?
ASR-output evaluation scales
 Text support Support/hindrance Did you obtain benefit from the text or did the text hinder speech comprehension?
 Problems errors Not problematic/severely problematic To what extent were the ASR errors problematic for text comprehension?
 Problems delay Not problematic/severely problematic To what extent was the text delay problematic for text comprehension?

NOTE: ASR = automatic speech recognition.