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Supporting dynamic change detection: using the right tool for the task

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Title
Supporting dynamic change detection: using the right tool for the task
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Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, December 2016
DOI 10.1186/s41235-016-0033-4
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Benoît R. Vallières, Helen M. Hodgetts, François Vachon, Sébastien Tremblay

Abstract

Detecting task-relevant changes in a visual scene is necessary for successfully monitoring and managing dynamic command and control situations. Change blindness-the failure to notice visual changes-is an important source of human error. Change History EXplicit (CHEX) is a tool developed to aid change detection and maintain situation awareness; and in the current study we test the generality of its ability to facilitate the detection of changes when this subtask is embedded within a broader dynamic decision-making task. A multitasking air-warfare simulation required participants to perform radar-based subtasks, for which change detection was a necessary aspect of the higher-order goal of protecting one's own ship. In this task, however, CHEX rendered the operator even more vulnerable to attentional failures in change detection and increased perceived workload. Such support was only effective when participants performed a change detection task without concurrent subtasks. Results are interpreted in terms of the NSEEV model of attention behavior (Steelman, McCarley, & Wickens, Hum. Factors 53:142-153, 2011; J. Exp. Psychol. Appl. 19:403-419, 2013), and suggest that decision aids for use in multitasking contexts must be designed to fit within the available workload capacity of the user so that they may truly augment cognition.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Researcher 3 9%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 11 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 8 25%
Engineering 3 9%
Neuroscience 2 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Social Sciences 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 14 44%
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