Multiple resources and mental workload¶
Wickens, C. D. (2008). Multiple resources and mental workload. Human Factors, 50(3), 449-455.
Cited by¶
3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Attention
- Cost of filter failure. Misallocation (attending to noise, ignoring signal) degrades outcomes; opportunity cost of wrongly allocated attention compounds, as Wickens (2008) shows in his multiple resource theory of mental workload and dual-task interference.
This sourceMultiple-resource theory of dual-task interference by shared modality/code/stage.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Wickens's abstract frames multiple-resource theory around mental workload and dual-task overload breakdowns; it does not state that misallocated attention degrades outcomes or that opportunity cost compounds.
“The model was shown to be partially relevant to the concept of mental workload, with greatest relevance to performance breakdowns related to dual-task overload.”
- Cost of filter failure. Misallocation (attending to noise, ignoring signal) degrades outcomes; opportunity cost of wrongly allocated attention compounds, as Wickens (2008) shows in his multiple resource theory of mental workload and dual-task interference.
- Representational Modality
- A visual warning on a silent screen may be missed; a haptic pulse from a wearable device may cut through inattention—a pattern Wickens (2008) formalizes in multiple-resource theory, which predicts that alerts in unused modalities cut through workload more effectively than additions to an already-loaded channel.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The abstract supports the multiple-resource framework and its use for design under task overload, but never mentions alerts, warnings, or haptic salience.
“The objective is to lay out the rationale for multiple resource theory and the particular 4-D multiple resource model, as well as to show how the model is useful both as a design tool and as a means of predicting multitask workload overload.”
- A visual warning on a silent screen may be missed; a haptic pulse from a wearable device may cut through inattention—a pattern Wickens (2008) formalizes in multiple-resource theory, which predicts that alerts in unused modalities cut through workload more effectively than additions to an already-loaded channel.
Domain-specific¶
- Cognitive Load
- Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
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