Detection of icon appearance and disappearance on a digital situation awareness display

    Authors

    P. J. Durlach; J. P. Kring;L. D. Bowens

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Milit. Psychol.

    Keywords

    CHANGE DETECTION PARADIGM; CHANGE BLINDNESS; EXPERTISE; Psychology, Multidisciplinary

    Abstract

    The potential for change detection failure during the monitoring of a military digital situation awareness map was investigated. Participants were asked to monitor the map for icon appearance or disappearance. A change accompanied by two other changes was detected 69.3% of the time, while the same change occurring alone was detected 79.6% of the time. When three changes occurred simultaneously, all three were detected only 37% of the time. Detection of icon appearance was superior to detection of icon disappearance, as might be expected from the literature on visual attention. The discussion addresses the need to represent change explicitly in such systems and suggests properties that a change detection aid should possess.

    Journal Title

    Military Psychology

    Volume

    20

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2008

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    81

    Last Page

    94

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000255470200002

    ISSN

    0899-5605

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