Quantification of Tactile Cueing for Enhanced Target Search Capacity

    Authors

    J. Merlo;P. Hancock

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Milit. Psychol.

    Keywords

    Psychology, Multidisciplinary

    Abstract

    Soldiers on today's battlefield find themselves monitoring a host of displays in both vehicles and command centers, with personal-mounted displays looming in the near future. Such display proliferation makes the task of managing limited visual attention while searching for information extremely demanding and the potential for critical information loss due to visual demand overload. Cueing has traditionally provided a performance advantage in search tasks, with the current experiment exploring whether and how a specific tactile display format could guide visual attention. In particular, the use of the tactile cues decreased search response time by more than 30%. This was not a trade of speed for accuracy because the frequency of missed signals themselves was also reduced by approximately 70%, and false positives were suppressed by the addition of the tactile cue by over 50%. These findings represent useful foundational outcomes against which to compare other forms of sensory cueing.

    Journal Title

    Military Psychology

    Volume

    23

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    137

    Last Page

    153

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000288264700002

    ISSN

    0899-5605

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