Sustained Attention in a Monitoring Task: Towards a Neuroadaptative Enterprise System Interface

Information Systems and Neuroscience - Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-01087-4_15 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 125-132

Author(s):

Théophile Demazure ◽

Alexander Karran ◽

Élise Labonté-LeMoyne ◽

Pierre-Majorique Léger ◽

Sylvain Sénécal ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustained Attention ◽

Enterprise System ◽

Monitoring Task

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Sustained Attention and Feature-Integrative Displays

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193129804202211 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 42 (22) ◽

pp. 1585-1589 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Louis C. Miller ◽

Joel S. Warm ◽

William N. Dember ◽

Donald A. Schumsky

Keyword(s):

Information Processing ◽

Sustained Attention ◽

Comparative Judgment ◽

Absolute Judgment ◽

Feature Integration ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Monitoring Task ◽

Processing Demands ◽

Successive Task ◽

Task Types

Observers monitored the repetitive presentation of a simulated submarine detection display for occasional targets. Observers were required to integrate information contained in one, two, or three indicators either in a simultaneous (comparative judgment) or successive (absolute judgment) format. Consistent with earlier findings on feature-integration, performance efficiency varied inversely with the number of features which needed to be integrated in signal detection. Unlike previous studies involving unitary discriminations, observers in the simultaneous conditions performed more poorly than those in the successive conditions as the information processing demands of the monitoring task increased. The results indicate that while systematic differences were found between simultaneous and successive task-types, different factors may play a role when observers must contend with multiple as compared to unitary sources of information.

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Speeded Paper-Pencil Sustained Attention and Mental Speed Tests

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001.29.4.205 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 205-216 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Stefan Krumm ◽

Lothar Schmidt-Atzert ◽

Kurt Michalczyk ◽

Vanessa Danthiir

Keyword(s):

Sustained Attention ◽

Time Pressure ◽

Factor Model ◽

Higher Order ◽

Future Research ◽

Perceptual Speed ◽

Speed Factor ◽

Close Relationship ◽

Task Processing ◽

Order Factor

Mental speed (MS) and sustained attention (SA) are theoretically distinct constructs. However, tests of MS are very similar to SA tests that use time pressure as an impeding condition. The performance in such tasks largely relies on the participants’ speed of task processing (i.e., how quickly and correctly one can perform the simple cognitive tasks). The present study examined whether SA and MS are empirically the same or different constructs. To this end, 24 paper-pencil and computerized tests were administered to 199 students. SA turned out to be highly related to MS task classes: substitution and perceptual speed. Furthermore, SA showed a very close relationship with the paper-pencil MS factor. The correlation between SA and computerized speed was considerably lower but still high. In a higher-order general speed factor model, SA had the highest loading on the higher-order factor; the higher-order factor explained 88% of SA variance. It is argued that SA (as operationalized with tests using time pressure as an impeding condition) and MS cannot be differentiated, at the level of broad constructs. Implications for neuropsychological assessment and future research are discussed.

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