Display/Control Integrality and Time-Sharing Performance

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Time-sharing performance was investigated as a function of the display and response integrality of the time-shared tasks. A manual step-tracking task was time-shared with a Stroop task that could be responded to manually or by speech. A secondary task technique was employed to manipulate the resource allocation between the two tasks. Display integrality was manipulated by: (1) contingent processing of the different dimensions of the Stroop task, and (2) the “objectness” of the dual task display. Response integrality was manipulated by the number of responses required of the dual task and the response modality of the Stroop task. A prevalent resource competition effect between the manual responses of the two tasks were observed, supporting the concept of multiple resources. Results were also in concordance with Kahneman's object file model of attention; demonstrating that irrelevant elements within an object were difficult to ignore. The findings demonstrated the interactive effects of resource competition and task integrality on time-sharing performance.

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