Search Results - "Brumby, Duncan P."

History and future of human-automation interaction by Janssen, Christian P., Donker, Stella F., Brumby, Duncan P., Kun, Andrew L.

“…•We review the history of human-automation interaction research in IJHCS.•Automated systems are used by non-professional users, in more dynamic contexts.•Given…”
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Strategic Adaptation to Task Characteristics, Incentives, and Individual Differences in Dual-Tasking by Janssen, Christian P, Brumby, Duncan P

“…We investigate how good people are at multitasking by comparing behavior to a prediction of the optimal strategy for dividing attention between two concurrent…”
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Embellishments Revisited: Perceptions of Embellished Visualisations Through the Viewer's Lens by Alebri, Muna, Costanza, Enrico, Panagiotidou, Georgia, Brumby, Duncan P.

“…Embellishments are features commonly used in everyday visualisations which are demonstrated to enhance assimilation and memorability. Despite their popularity,…”
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Disengaged From Planning During the Lockdown? An Interview Study in an Academic Setting by Ahmetoglu, Yoana, Brumby, Duncan P., Cox, Anna L.

“…This article reports the results of a repeated interview study with 15 knowledge workers in academia during the first COVID-19 lockdown (April–July 2020). The…”
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Study on the correlation and inhibition of visual marking and industrial icons by Wu, Xiaoli, Zhang, Ke, Fang, Zexi, P. Brumby, Duncan, Mao, Xiaoyang, Wang, Xiaoyan, Li, Qian

“…•This paper applied the theoretical knowledge of visual marking to the study of industrial icons, and the relationship between the inhibitory mechanism of…”
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Watts your usage? A field study of householders’ literacy for residential electricity data by Herrmann, Melanie R., Brumby, Duncan P., Oreszczyn, Tadj

“…Smart metering studies typically focus on quantifying behavior change. However, little is known about how users understand energy information and analyze and…”
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Does data visualization affect users' understanding of electricity consumption? by Herrmann, Melanie R., Brumby, Duncan P., Oreszczyn, Tadj, Gilbert, Xavier M. P.

“…Different data visualizations are investigated for how they enable occupants to learn about domestic energy consumption. Smart metering can potentially…”
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Recovering From an Interruption: Investigating Speed−Accuracy Trade-Offs in Task Resumption Behavior by Brumby, Duncan P, Cox, Anna L, Back, Jonathan, Gould, Sandy J. J

“…Interruptions are disruptive because they take time to recover from, in the form of a resumption lag, and lead to an increase in the likelihood of errors being…”
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Strategic Adaptation to Performance Objectives in a Dual‐Task Setting by Janssen, Christian P., Brumby, Duncan P.

“…How do people interleave attention when multitasking? One dominant account is that the completion of a subtask serves as a cue to switch tasks. But what…”
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Ignore Similarity If You Can: A Computational Exploration of Exemplar Similarity Effects on Rule Application by Brumby, Duncan P, Hahn, Ulrike

“…It is generally assumed that when making categorization judgments the cognitive system learns to focus on stimuli features that are relevant for making an…”
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Arranging Icons on Small Displays: Do Hexagonal Layouts Improve Search Performance? by Bouwman, Tassilo, Brumby, Duncan P.

“…Mobile devices with small displays can use hexagonal layouts of circular icons to use space more efficiently – we test whether this design choice improves…”
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Dividing Attention Between Tasks: Testing Whether Explicit Payoff Functions Elicit Optimal Dual‐Task Performance by Farmer, George D., Janssen, Christian P., Nguyen, Anh T., Brumby, Duncan P.

“…We test people's ability to optimize performance across two concurrent tasks. Participants performed a number entry task while controlling a randomly moving…”
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Prioritizing unread e-mails: people send urgent responses before important or short ones by Cox, Anna L., Bird, Jon, Brumby, Duncan P., Cecchinato, Marta E., Gould, Sandy J. J.

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Exploring domestic energy consumption feedback through interactive annotation by Herrmann, Melanie R., Costanza, Enrico, Brumby, Duncan P., Harries, Tim, das Graças Brightwell, Maria, Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Jennings, Nicholas R.

“…We report on a three-week field study in which participants from nine households were asked to annotate their domestic electricity consumption data using a…”
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Designing Devices With the Task in Mind: Which Numbers Are Really Used in Hospitals? by Wiseman, Sarah, Cox, Anna L., Brumby, Duncan P.

“…Objective: We studied the patterns of digits and numbers used when programming infusion pumps with the aim of informing the design of number entry interfaces…”
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Strategies for Guiding Interactive Search: An Empirical Investigation Into the Consequences of Label Relevance for Assessment and Selection by Brumby, Duncan P., Howes, Andrew

“…When searching a novel Web page, people often estimate the likelihood that labeled links on the page will lead to their goal. A rational analysis of this…”
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Identifying Optimum Performance Trade-Offs Using a Cognitively Bounded Rational Analysis Model of Discretionary Task Interleaving by Janssen, Christian P., Brumby, Duncan P., Dowell, John, Chater, Nick, Howes, Andrew

“…We report the results of a dual‐task study in which participants performed a tracking and typing task under various experimental conditions. An objective…”
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Exemplar similarity and rule application by Hahn, Ulrike, Prat-Sala, Mercè, Pothos, Emmanuel M., Brumby, Duncan P.

“…We report four experiments examining effects of instance similarity on the application of simple explicit rules. We found effects of similarity to illustrative…”
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Shared Input Multimodal Mobile Interfaces: Interaction Modality Effects on Menu Selection in Single-Task and Dual-Task Environments by Zhao, Shengdong, Brumby, Duncan P., Chignell, Mark, Salvucci, Dario, Goyal, Sahil

“…Audio and visual modalities are two common output channels in the user interfaces embedded in today's mobile devices. However, these user interfaces are…”
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Making a Task Difficult: Evidence That Device-Oriented Steps Are Effortful and Error-Prone by Ament, Maartje G. A, Cox, Anna L, Blandford, Ann, Brumby, Duncan P

“…Errors in the execution of procedural tasks can have severe consequences. Attempts to ameliorate these slip errors through increased training and motivation…”
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