Title

Quantification Of Tactile Cueing For Enhanced Target Search Capacity

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. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

3-1-2011

Publication Title

Military Psychology

Volume

23

Issue

2

Number of Pages

137-153

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2011.550226

Socpus ID

79952518656 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79952518656

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