Cue effectiveness in mitigating postcompletion errors in a routine procedural task

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 217-232

  Chung, Phillip H ^a   Byrne, Michael D ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACT R; Cognitive architecture; Error intervention; Error mitigation; Goal memory; Human error; Interface design; Modeling; Postcompletion error; Routine procedural task; Visual attention; Visual cue; Visual salience

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR DETECTION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; POSTCOMPLETION ERRORS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 44249102982     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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