Title
Brief Lags in Interrupted Sequential Performance: Evaluating a Model and Model Evaluation Method.
Abstract
We examined effects of adding brief (1 second) lags between trials in a task designed to study errors in interrupted sequential performance. These randomly occurring lags could act as short breaks and improve performance or as short interruptions and impair performance. The lags improved placekeeping accuracy, and to interpret this effect we developed a cognitive model of placekeeping operations, which accounts for the effect in terms of the lag making memory for recent performance more distinct. Self-report data suggest that rehearsal was the dominant strategy for maintaining placekeeping information during interruptions, and we incorporate a rehearsal mechanism in the model. To evaluate the model we developed a simple new goodness-of-fit test based on analysis of variance that offers an inferential basis for rejecting models that do not accommodate effects of experimental manipulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.ijhcs.2014.12.007
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Task interruption,Sequence errors,Cognitive modeling,Goodness-of-fit testing
Journal
79
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1071-5819
1
0.35
References 
Authors
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Erik M. Altmann110.35
J. Gregory Trafton2526.18