Hancock, P A
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Human factors
To examine and evaluate ways in which an understanding of the quintessential element of Human Factors/Ergonomics can address the spectrum of existential threats that confront contemporary civilization. HF/E is dedicated to improving quality of life. Paradoxically, many processes which sustain contemporary civilization act to reduce that overall qua...
Mishler, Scott Chen, Jing
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Human factors
We investigated secondary-task-based countermeasures to the vigilance decrement during a simulated partially automated driving (PAD) task, with the goal of understanding the underlying mechanism of the vigilance decrement and maintaining driver vigilance in PAD. Partial driving automation requires a human driver to monitor the roadway, but humans a...
Kettle, Liam Lee, Yi-Ching
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Human factors
The current paper conducted two parallel studies to explore user experiences of well-being conversational agents (CAs) and identify important features for engagement. Students transitioning into university life take on greater responsibility, yet tend to sacrifice healthy behaviors to strive for academic and financial gain. Additionally, students f...
Eisma, Yke Bauke Bakay, Ahmed de Winter, Joost
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Human factors
In the 1950s and 1960s, John Senders carried out a number of influential experiments on the monitoring of multidegree-of-freedom systems. In these experiments, participants were tasked with detecting events (threshold crossings) for multiple dials, each presenting a signal with different bandwidth. Senders' analyses showed a nearly linear relations...
Cao, Jiajia Chen, Na
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Human factors
Based on social exchange theory, this study investigates the effects of robots' fairness and social status on humans' reward-punishment behaviors and trust in human-robot interactions. In human-robot teamwork, robots show fair behaviors, dedication (altruistic unfair behaviors), and selfishness (self-interested unfair behaviors), but few studies ha...
Park, Junho Zahabi, Maryam
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Human factors
This study investigated the use of human performance modeling (HPM) approach for prediction of driver behavior and interactions with in-vehicle technology. HPM has been applied in numerous human factors domains such as surface transportation as it can quantify and predict human performance; however, there has been no integrated literature review fo...
Phillips, James G Van Gemmert, Arend W A Hughes, Barry
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Human factors
As images are used within graphical user interfaces to signify menu selection, it is important to understand how image properties can influence cursor placement online. Objects have multiple dimensions that create potential ambiguity and Stroop-like confusions for the operator if a previously habitual response conflicts with the required response. ...
Labonte-LeMoyne, Elise Cameron, Ann-Frances Sénécal, Sylvain Fredette, Marc Faubert, Jocelyn Lepore, Franco Léger, Pierre-Majorique
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Human factors
The number of accidents due to distracted pedestrian is on the rise and many governments and institutions are enacting public policies which restrict texting while walking. However, pedestrians do more than just texting when they use their mobile devices on the go. Exploring pedestrian multitasking, this paper aims to examine the effects of mobile ...
Matsubayashi, Shota Miwa, Kazuhisa Terai, Hitoshi Shimojo, Asaya Ninomiya, Yuki
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Human factors
The objective is to clarify the nature of cooperative moving behavior that realizes smooth traffic with others from the viewpoint of the trade-off between self-benefit and others' benefit in the shared space. The shared space is not constrained by formal rules or behavioral norms, and is a potentially ambiguous situation where it is not clear who h...
Chen, Yue-Yuan Fang, Wei-Ning Bao, Hai-Feng Guo, Bei-Yuan
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Human factors
This study used electroencephalography to explore the behavioral and electrophysiological effects of task interruption on performance. Task interruption is known to harm work performance, especially on working memory-related tasks. However, most studies pay little attention to cognitive processes by exploring brain activity and ignore the cumulativ...
