Task pre-loading: designing adaptive systems to counteract mental underload
Task pre-loading: designing adaptive systems to counteract mental underload
It has long been accepted in ergonomics research on mental workload that overload and underload are equally detrimental to performance (see e.g.,Young and Stanton, 2002). UnderMalleableAttentional ResourcesTheory (MART;Young and Stanton, 2002), underload is explained by a shrinkage of attentional capacity in conditions of excessively low mental workload. Consequently, any sudden increase in workload will be beyond the capacity limit of the operator – even if such a level of demand would ordinarily have been within their ability to cope.
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Young, M.S.
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Birrell, S.A.
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Davidssen, S.
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12 April 2011
Young, M.S.
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Birrell, S.A.
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Davidssen, S.
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Young, M.S., Birrell, S.A. and Davidssen, S.
(2011)
Task pre-loading: designing adaptive systems to counteract mental underload.
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Anderson, Martin
(ed.)
Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2011.
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It has long been accepted in ergonomics research on mental workload that overload and underload are equally detrimental to performance (see e.g.,Young and Stanton, 2002). UnderMalleableAttentional ResourcesTheory (MART;Young and Stanton, 2002), underload is explained by a shrinkage of attentional capacity in conditions of excessively low mental workload. Consequently, any sudden increase in workload will be beyond the capacity limit of the operator – even if such a level of demand would ordinarily have been within their ability to cope.
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Published date: 12 April 2011
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M.S. Young
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S.A. Birrell
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S. Davidssen
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Martin Anderson
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