THE EFFECT OF INFORMATION ORGANIZATION ON COGNITIVE WORKLOAD AND VISUAL SEARCH PERFORMANCE

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Abstract

This study examined the relationship between how visual information is organized and people’s visual search performance. Specifically, we systematically varied how visual search information was organized (from well-organized to disorganized), and then asked participants to perform a visual search task involving finding and identifying a number of visual targets within the field of visual non-targets. We hypothesized that the visual search task would be easier when the information was well-organized versus when it was disorganized. We further speculated that visual search performance would be mediated by cognitive workload, and that the results could be generally described by the well-established speed-accuracy tradeoff phenomenon. This paper presents the details of the study we designed and our results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)302-306
Number of pages5
JournalProceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Volume63
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event63rd International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2019 - Seattle, United States
Duration: Oct 28 2019Nov 1 2019

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