Title

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

Authors

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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