Costs in searching for two targets: dividing search across target types could improve airport security screening
Menneer, Tamaryn, Barrett, Doug J.K., Phillips, Luke, Donnelly, Nick and Cave, Kyle R. (2007) Costs in searching for two targets: dividing search across target types could improve airport security screening. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, (7), 915-932. (doi:10.1002/acp.1305).
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The cost of searching for two visual targets simultaneously was compared against two separate single-target searches using exposure time and accuracy measures within a staircase procedure. Dual-target search for all stimuli (colour, shape and orientation) exhibited a loss of accuracy for one target. For orientation and shape, this dual-target cost in accuracy was extreme, with chance-level performance on one target. For colour, dual-target search exhibited an additional cost in search time, with search requiring a longer exposure than the summed time required for two single-target searches. An additional search-time cost was also found for orientation targets when irrelevant colour variation was added to the display. In conclusion, dual-target search for dissimilar targets is accompanied by an accuracy cost. Furthermore, colour variation, whether task-relevant or not, leads to an additional cost in processing speed. The results suggest that a divided-effort strategy would improve performance in search tasks such as X-ray baggage screening.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0888-4080 (print) |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > T Technology (General) H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Psychology > Division of Cognition |
| Item ID: | 45058 |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 00:09 |
| Contributors: | Menneer, Tamaryn (Author) Barrett, Doug J.K. (Author) Phillips, Luke (Author) Donnelly, Nick (Author) Cave, Kyle R. (Author) |
| Date: | November 2007 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/45058 |
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