Mental effort is an elementary notion in our folk psychology and a familiar fixture in everyday
introspective experience. However, as an object of scientific study, mental effort has …

Most software quality research has focused on identifying faults (ie, information is incorrectly
recorded in an artifact). Because software still exhibits incorrect behavior, a different …

Behavioral and economic theories have long maintained that actions are chosen so as to
minimize demands for exertion or work, a principle sometimes referred to as the law of less …

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices,
globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require …

Applied Attention Theory, Second Edition provides details concerning the relevance of all
aspects of attention to the world beyond the laboratory. Topic application areas include the …

Objective: This paper explores the development of a rigorous computational model of driver
behavior in a cognitive architecture--a computational framework with underlying …

The time to resume task goals after an interruption varied depending on the duration and
cognitive demand of interruptions, as predicted by the memory for goals model (Altmann & …

Constraints and dependencies among the elements of embodied cognition form patterns or
microstrategies of interactive behavior. Hard constraints determine which microstrategies …

Understanding the interaction of a user with a designed device such as a GUI requires clear
understanding of three components: the cognitive, perceptual and motor capabilities of the …

This research adopted a model of goal activation to study the mechanisms underlying
interrupted task performance. The effects of interruption timing, type of interruption, and age …