Adaptive Perspectives on Human-Technology Interaction Methods and Models for Cognitive Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction

by Kirlik, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780195374827
• ISBN10: 0195374827
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In everyday life, and particularly in the modern workplace, information technology and automation increasingly mediate, augment, and sometimes even interfere with how humans interact with their environment. How to understand and support cognition in human-technology interaction is both a practically and socially relevant problem. The chapters in this volume frame this problem in adaptive terms: How are behavior and cognition adapted, or perhaps ill-adapted, to the demands and opportunities of an environment where interaction is mediated by tools and technology? The authors draw heavily on the work of Egon Brunswik, a pioneer in ecological and cognitive psychology, as well as on modern refinements and extensions of Brunswikian ideas, including Hammond's Social Judgment Theory, Gigerenzer's Ecological Rationality and Anderson's Rational Analysis. Inspired by Brunswik's view of cognition as "coming to terms" with the "casual texture" of the external world, the chapters in this volume provide quantitative and computational models and measures for studying how people come to terms with an increasingly technological ecology, and provide insights for supporting cognition and performance through design, training, and other interventions. The methods, models, and measures presented in this book provide timely and important resources for addressing problems in the rapidly growing field of human-technology interaction. The book will be of interest to researchers, students, and practitioners in human factors, cognitive engineering, human-computer interaction, judgment and decision making, and cognitive science.

Author Biography

Teaches Human Factors, Industrial Engineering, and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also a member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Contributors	p. xv
Background and Motivation
Cognitive Engineering: Toward a Workable Concept of Mind	p. 3
Introduction to Brunswikian Theory and Method	p. 10
Technological Interfaces
Introduction	p. 27
Knowledge versus Execution in Dynamic Judgment Tasks	p. 29
Understanding the Effects of Computer Displays and Time Pressure on the Performance of Distributed Teams	p. 43
Supporting Situation Assessment through Attention Guidance and Diagnostic Aiding: The Benefits and Costs of Display Enhancement on Judgment Skill	p. 55
Applying the Multivariate Lens Model to Fault Diagnosis	p. 71
Automation and Decision Aiding
Introduction	p. 89
Measuring the Fit between Human Judgments and Alerting Systems: A Study of Collision Detection in Aviation	p. 91
Trust, Automation, and Feedback: An Integrated Approach	p. 105
Human-Automated Judgment Learning: Enhancing Interaction with Automated Judgment Systems	p. 114
Alternatives to Compensatory Modeling
Introduction	p. 129
Inferring Fast and Frugal Heuristics from Human Judgment Data	p. 131
Viewing Training through a Fuzzy Lens	p. 149
Achieving Coherence: Meeting New Cognitive Demands in Technological Systems	p. 163
Into the Field: Vicarious Functioning in Action
Introduction	p. 177
What Makes Vicarious Functioning Work? Exploring the Geometry of Human-Technology Interaction	p. 179
Understanding the Determinants of Adaptive Behavior in a Modern Airline Cockpit	p. 197
Abstracting Situated Action: Implications for Cognitive Modeling and interface Design	p. 212
Ecological Analysis Meets Computational Cognitive Modeling
Introduction	p. 227
The Emerging Rapprochement between Cognitive and Ecological Analyses	p. 230
The Use of Proximal Information Scent to Forage for Distal Content on the World Wide Web	p. 247
Kilograms Matter: Rational Analysis, Ecological Rationality, and Closed-Loop Modeling of Interactive Cognition and Behavior	p. 267
Reflections and Future Directions
Reflections from a Judgment and Decision Making Perspective	p. 287
Reflections from a Cognitive Engineering and Human Factors Perspective	p. 292
Name Index	p. 297
Subject Index	p. 303
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