The Integration of Information Relevant to a Manual Control Task

An information integration hypothesis developed by Wickens and Boles (1983) maintains that when task relevant information must be integrated by the operator, such information should be configured to maintain close proximity. Close proximity may be defined at the input stage as shared resources, or at the output stage as the same hand. To test the effects of display and response proximity, subjects performed a manual control task in which discrete information was integrated with the manual control task. Four different display formats were manipulated within subjects and two response configurations were manipulated between groups. It was predicted that: (1) cues most similar to the tracking task (i.e. Visual and Spatial) would be processed most efficiently and result in fast adaptation and (2) detection with the proximal hand would be more efficient.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Goettl, Barry Patrick

Contributors dc:contributor

• Wickens, Christopher D.

• Psychology, Experimental

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8803049

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69700