How to optimize switch virtual keyboards to trade off speed and accuracy [0.03%]
如何优化切换虚拟键盘以平衡速度和准确率
Xiao Zhang,Kan Fang,Gregory Francis
Xiao Zhang
In some circumstances, people interact with a virtual keyboard by triggering a binary switch to guide a moving cursor to target characters or items. Such switch keyboards are commonly used by patients with severely restricted motor capabili...
Benjamin Margolin Rottman,Micah T Prochaska,Roderick Corro Deaño
Benjamin Margolin Rottman
Whether and when humans in general, and physicians in particular, use their beliefs about base rates in Bayesian reasoning tasks is a long-standing question. Unfortunately, previous research on whether doctors use their beliefs about the pr...
Seokmin Kang,Barbara Tversky
Seokmin Kang
Gestures serve many roles in communication, learning and understanding both for those who view them and those who create them. Gestures are especially effective when they bear resemblance to the thought they represent, an advantage they hav...
Erin M Sparck,Elizabeth Ligon Bjork,Robert A Bjork
Erin M Sparck
Taking multiple-choice practice tests with competitive incorrect alternatives can enhance performance on related but different questions appearing on a later cued-recall test (Little et al., Psychol Sci 23:1337-1344, 2012). This benefit of ...
Learning to interpret topographic maps: Understanding layered spatial information [0.03%]
学习解读地形图：理解分层空间信息
Kinnari Atit,Steven M Weisberg,Nora S Newcombe et al.
Kinnari Atit et al.
Novices struggle to interpret maps that show information about continuous dimensions (typically latitude and longitude) layered with information that is inherently continuous but segmented categorically. An example is a topographic map, use...
Jeremy M Wolfe
Jeremy M Wolfe
Morton Ann Gernsbacher,Adam R Raimond,M Theresa Balinghasay et al.
Morton Ann Gernsbacher et al.
Although euphemisms are intended to put a more positive spin on the words they replace, some euphemisms are ineffective. Our study examined the effectiveness of a popular euphemism for persons with disabilities, special needs. Most style gu...
Multitasking: does task-switching add to the effect of dual-tasking on everyday-like driving behavior? [0.03%]
多重任务处理：任务切换对日常驾驶行为的双任务效应有影响吗？
It is well established that performing multiple tasks simultaneously (dual-tasking) or sequentially (task-switching) degrades performance on one or both tasks. However, it is unknown whether task-switching adds to the effects of dual-taskin...