Change of search time and non-search time in X-ray baggage screening due to training

Ergonomics

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 644-656

  Koller, Saskia M ^a,b   Drury, Colin G ^c   Schwaninger, Adrian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Aviation security; Non search time; Search time; Training effect; Visual search; X ray baggage screening

Indexed keywords

AVIATION SECURITY; NON-SEARCH TIME; SEARCH TIME; TRAINING EFFECT; VISUAL SEARCH; X-RAY BAGGAGE SCREENING;

AIRCRAFT; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AVIATION;

ADULT; AIRPORT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SCREENING; TIME; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; X RAY; AIRCRAFT; EQUIPMENT; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SAFETY; STANDARD;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TIME FACTORS; X-RAYS;

EID: 67650498505     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130802526935     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Aaronson, D. and Watt, B., 1987. Extensions of Grier's computational formulas for A′ and B″ to below-chance performance. Psychological Bulletin, 102, 439-442.
2. Cohen, J., 1988. Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. Hillsdale, NY: Erlbaum.
3. Craik, F.I.M. and Salthouse, T.A., 2000. The handbook of aging and cognition. Mahwah NJ: Erlbaum.
4. Czaja, S.J. and Drury, C.G., 1981a. Aging and pretraining in industrial inspection. Human Factors, 23 (4), 485-494.
5. Czaja, S.J. and Drury, C.G., 1981b. Training programs for inspection. Human Factors I, 23 (4), 473-484.
6. Dollinger, S.M. and Hoyer, W.J., 1996. Age and skill differences in the processing demands of visual inspection. Applied Cognitive Psychology 10, 225-239.
7. Drury, C., 1975. Inspection of sheet metal materials: Model and data. Human Factors, 17, 257-265.
8. Drury, C.G., Ghylin, K.M., and Holness, K., 2006. Error analysis and threat magnitude for carry-on bag inspection. In: Proceedings of the 50th Annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society meeting, San Francisco, CA. Santa Monica, CA: HFES, 1189-1193.
9. Drury, C.G., Spencer, F.W., and Schurman, D., 1997. Measuring human detection performance in aircraft visual inspection. In: Proceedings of the 41st annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society meeting, Albuquerque, NM. Santa Monica, CA: HFES, 304-308.
10. Fozard, J.L., 1990. Vision and hearing in aging. In: J.E. Birren, R.B. Sloane, and G.D. Cohen, eds. Handbook of mental health and aging 3rd ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 150-170.
11. Gale, A.G., Purdy, K., and Wooding, D., 2005. Designing out terrorism: human factors issues in airport baggage inspection. In: D. deWaard, K.A. Brookhuis, R. van Egmond, and Th. Boersema, eds. Human factors in design, safety, and management. Maastricht: Shaker, 63.
12. Gale, A.G., et al., 2000. Is airport baggage inspection just another medical image? Medical Imaging: Image Perception and Performance. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging, 1 (26), 184-192.
13. Ghylin, K.M., Drury, C.G., and Schwaninger, A., 2006. Two-component model of security inspection: Application and findings. 16th world congress of ergonomics, IEA 2006, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 10-14 July 2006.
14. Grier, J.B., 1971. Nonparametric indexes for sensitivity and bias: Computing formulas. Psychological Bulletin, 75, 424-429.
15. Halpern, D.F., 1992. Sex differences in cognitive abilities, 2nd ed. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
16. Koller, S. and Schwaninger, A., 2006. Assessing x-ray image interpretation competency of airport security screeners. In: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on research in air transportation, ICRAT 2006, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, 24-28 June 2006, 399-402.
17. Leach, J. and Morris, P.E., 1998. Cognitive factors in the close visual and magnetic particle inspection of welds underwater. Human Factors 40 (2), 187-194.
18. Liu, X., et al., 2006. Is that a gun? The influence and features of bags and threat items on detection performance. In: P.D. Bust, ed. Contemporary Ergonomics. London: Taylor and Francis, 17-22.
19. McCarley, J.S., et al., 2004. Visual skills in airport security screening. Psychological Science, 15, 302-306.
20. McPhee, L.C., et al., 2004. Age differences in visual search for traffic signs during a simulated conversation. Human Factors, 46, 674-685.
21. Morawski, T., Drury, C.G., and Karwan, M.H., 1980. Predicting search performance for multiple targets. Human Factors, 22, 707-718.
22. Owsley, C., Sekuler, R., and Siemsen, D., 1983. Contrast sensitivity throughout adulthood. Vision Research, 23 (7), 689-700.
23. Plude, D.J. and Hoyer, W.J., 1986. Age and the selectivity of visual information processing. Psychology and Aging, 1 (1), 4-10.
24. Pollack, I. and Norman, D.A., 1964. A non-parametric analysis of recognition experiments. Psychonomic Science, 1, 125-126.
25. Riegelnig, J. and Schwaninger, A., 2006. The influence of age and gender on detection performance and the criterion in x-ray screening. In: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on research in air transportation, ICRAT 2006, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, 24-28 June 2006.
26. Schwaninger, A., 2003. Evaluation and selection of airport security screeners. AIRPORT, 2, 14-15.
27. Schwaninger, A., 2005. Increasing efficiency in airport security screening. WIT Transaction on the Built Environment, 82, 405-416.
28. Schwaninger, A., Hardmeier, D., and Hofer, F., 2004. Measuring visual abilities and visual knowledge of aviation security screeners. IEEE ICCST Proceedings, 38, 258-264.
29. Schwaninger, A. and Hofer, F., 2004. Evaluation of CBT for increasing threat detection performance in x-ray screening. In: K. Morgan and M.J. Spector, eds. The Internet society: Advances in learning, commerce and security. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 147-156.
30. Spitz, G. and Drury, C.G., 1978. Inspection of sheet materials - test of model predictions. Human Factors, 20, 521-528.
31. Treisman, A., 1998. Feature binding, attention and object perception. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 353, 1295-1306.
32. Treisman, A. and Gelade, G., 1980. A feature integration theory of attention. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 97-136.
33. Wallis, G.M. and Bülthoff, H., 1999. Learning to recognize objects. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 22-31.
34. Wang, M.J. and Drury, C.G., 1989. A method of evaluating inspector's performance differences and job requirements. Applied Ergonomics, 20 (3), 181-190.
35. Wang, M.J.J., Lin, S.C., and Drury, C.G., 1997. Training for the strategy in visual search. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 20, 101-108.
36. Wolfe, J., 1994. Guided search 2.0: A revised model of visual search. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1, 202-238.