The Alarm Problem and Directed Attention in Dynamic Fault Management¶
WOODS, D. D. (1995). The Alarm Problem and Directed Attention in Dynamic Fault Management. Ergonomics, 38(11), 2371-2393.
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- Progressive-Disclosure Failure
- . Public-service wizards. Benefits applications, tax filing, and immigration flows where early disclosure decisions hide eligibility branches that later turn out to apply, and users abandon mid-process because the path forward is staged out of sight. Education platforms and tutoring systems. Mastery gates and fading scaffolds that unlock too late for fast learners (boredom) and too early for slow ones (failure) — staged visibility mistuned to the learner's readiness. Control-room HMIs. Process plants, air-traffic, and network ops where alarm filtering and information layering bury the secondary signals an experienced operator needs to diagnose an abnormal situation, or flood normal mode with indicators that drown the abnormal signal
This sourceAnalyses the alarm problem in dynamic fault management across process control, aviation, space and anaesthesia, treating alarm systems as tools for directing operators' attention during abnormal situations.
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- . Public-service wizards. Benefits applications, tax filing, and immigration flows where early disclosure decisions hide eligibility branches that later turn out to apply, and users abandon mid-process because the path forward is staged out of sight. Education platforms and tutoring systems. Mastery gates and fading scaffolds that unlock too late for fast learners (boredom) and too early for slow ones (failure) — staged visibility mistuned to the learner's readiness. Control-room HMIs. Process plants, air-traffic, and network ops where alarm filtering and information layering bury the secondary signals an experienced operator needs to diagnose an abnormal situation, or flood normal mode with indicators that drown the abnormal signal
Mechanisms¶
- Alert or Label Budget
- The discipline that keeps it honest is to denominate the budget in receiver capacity, allow bounded bursts for verified real clusters, and watch for leakage into adjacent tiers.
This sourceShows why alarm design must be calibrated to the receiver's limited attention amid competing tasks and costly interruptions.
- The discipline that keeps it honest is to denominate the budget in receiver capacity, allow bounded bursts for verified real clusters, and watch for leakage into adjacent tiers.
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