A Reaction Time Study of Four Control-Display Linkages¶
Chapanis, A., & Lindenbaum, L. E. (1959). A Reaction Time Study of Four Control-Display Linkages. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
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Domain-specific¶
- Simon Effect
- Chapanis and Lindenbaum (1959) tested four spatial mappings between a stove's four burners and their control knobs and found that the directly congruent linkage — each knob positioned in spatial correspondence with the burner it controlled — produced faster, near-error-free operation, while the non-congruent layouts caused persistent control errors that practice did not erase
This sourceChapanis and Lindenbaum's four-linkage stove experiment, which confirms that one control-burner arrangement remained superior on reaction time and errors after practice had plateaued; the identification of that arrangement as the directly congruent one and its near-error-free performance come from the full text rather than the abstract.
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- Chapanis and Lindenbaum (1959) tested four spatial mappings between a stove's four burners and their control knobs and found that the directly congruent linkage — each knob positioned in spatial correspondence with the burner it controlled — produced faster, near-error-free operation, while the non-congruent layouts caused persistent control errors that practice did not erase
- Stimulus–Response Compatibility
- A control whose location or motion agrees with the represented system state is selected faster and with fewer errors than an arbitrary or reversed mapping
This sourceThe classic four-burner stove study, which measured reaction time and errors across four control-to-burner linkages and found the spatially corresponding arrangement fastest and least error-prone; it covers control location, not direction of motion.
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- A control whose location or motion agrees with the represented system state is selected faster and with fewer errors than an arbitrary or reversed mapping
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