Attention switching during interruptions

Zhang, Yi; Pigot, Hélène; Mayers, André

doi:10.1109/icmlc.2004.1380679

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“…Although many useful contributions have been made to elucidate and reduce the impact of interruptions for research and practical use (Altmann & Trafton, 2002;Boehm-Davis & Remington, 2009;McFarlane & Latorella, 2002;Morgan et al, 2013;Shallice, 2002;Shallice & Burgess, 1996;Trafton et al, 2011;Wickens & Gutzwiller, 2015;Zhang et al, 2004), many issues remain unanswered by the current theories and models, especially the MFG model (Altmann & Trafton, 2002). Hereafter, we will explore each of them, and questions that remain open for future investigations will be discussed.…”

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“…Even though several models of interruption have already been proposed (Altmann & Trafton, 2002;Boehm-Davis & Remington, 2009;Trafton et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2004), to our knowledge none have focused on cognitive processes recognized to affect interruptions such as decision making, attention (orientation, task switching, sustained attention, and executive control of action schemata), working memory, or goal encoding and retrieval altogether. Therefore, there is a need for a more integrative approach for a better understanding of such situations.…”

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“…Because the choice would occur before executing the interruption task or returning to the primary task, the frequency of decisions should reflect how the first stage works. Different variables might influence this stage: the complexity of the tasks, the expectancy attributes, the level of urgency or threat (Bach, Hurlemann, & Dolan, 2015;Zhang et al, 2004), the relevance of the potential interruption (Shelton, Elliott, Lynn, & Exner, 2009;Zanto & Rissman, 2015), the engagement on the primary task (Robinson et al, 2012), and, if available, experiences of past decisions (MacLean & Giesbrecht, 2015;Zeigenfuse, Pleskac, & Liu, 2014). Moreover, the decision criteria might differ between participants, especially among patients with abnormal frontal functions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Bramham et al, 2012;Prehn-Kristensen et al, 2011) and frontal lobe damage (Law et al, 2004).…”

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“…Action schemata are knowledge structures representing sensorimotor knowledge that constitute an action sequence (Davies & Logie, 1993), whereas a goal is a mental representation of the person's intention to accomplish a task and take some mental or physical action (Altmann & Trafton, 2002). Whether this purpose is conscious or not, goals are satisfied when the intended action is completed (Zhang, Pigot, & Mayers, 2004). Also, attention provides the necessary resources for the different processes to work properly.…”

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Failures Due to Interruptions or Distractions: A Review and a New Framework

Couffe

Michael

2017

The American Journal of Psychology

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GeorGe a. MiChaeL Laboratoire d'étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, université de Lyon interruptions of ongoing activities have spread since the development of and global increase in technology use and the general speeding in pace we all experience every day. their negative effects are well known: decline in performance and emotional distress. however, the literature still needs to shed light on the exact cognitive mechanisms involved in the way users decide to reply to an interruption, on the effects of interruptions of different durations, and on factors influencing reactivation of task schemata and goals at resumption. therefore, the aim of this article is to review the existing literature and models, uncover unresolved challenges, and propose new ways to confront them. we first review the substantive findings of recent decades from different domains (human-computer interaction, cognitive and experimental psychology, ergonomics), and their respective methodological and theoretical contributions. then we propose a general and operationalized definition of an interruption; review the different cognitive models of attention, executive control, and working memory that best explain the impact of interruptions; describe current challenges and questions that remain open for future studies; and finally propose an integrative research framework, the detour, which clarifies the cognitive processes at play during interruptions. we believe this work can directly affect the current state of the art, leading to new fundamental studies and applied solutions for the management of interruptions.

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Behavior Selection and Memory-based Learning for Artificial Creature Using Two-layered Confabulation

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Confabulations, where millions of items of relevant knowledge are applied in parallel in the human brain, are typically employed in thinking. This paper proposes a novel behavior selection architecture and memory-based learning method for an artificial creature based on two-layered confabulation. A behavior is selected by considering both internally generated will and the context of the external environment. Proposed behavior selection using a confabulation scheme is a parallel process in which a number of behaviors are considered simultaneously. An arbitration mechanism is employed to choose a proper behavior which is to be put into an action. Also memory-based behavior learning is proposed, where the memory has the selection probabilities of behaviors based on will and context. The learning module updates the contents of memory according to the user-given reward or penalty signal. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, an artificial creature is implemented in the 3D virtual environment such that it can interact with a human being considering its will and context.

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Attention switching during interruptions

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Failures Due to Interruptions or Distractions: A Review and a New Framework

Failures Due to Interruptions or Distractions: A Review and a New Framework

Behavior Selection and Memory-based Learning for Artificial Creature Using Two-layered Confabulation

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