Multiple resources and mental workload

Wickens, C. D. (2008). Multiple resources and mental workload. Human Factors, 50(3), 449-455.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2008

DOI

10.1518/001872008x288394

Link

https://doi.org/10.1518/001872008X288394

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journalism_mass_communication, psychology

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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

• 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.

Domain-specific

• Cognitive Load

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