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Attention, polychronicity, and expertise in prospective memory performance: Programmers' vulnerability to habit intrusion error in multitasking

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Title Attention, polychronicity, and expertise in prospective memory performance: Programmers' vulnerability to habit intrusion error in multitasking
 
Creator SANJRAM, PK
KHAN, A
 
Subject EXECUTIVE CONTROL
RETRIEVAL
INTENTIONS
EXPERIENCE
EFFICIENCY
SITUATIONS
KNOWLEDGE
STRATEGY
BEHAVIOR
NOVICE
Atypical action
HCI
Habit intrusion
ProM error
Programmer multitasking
 
Description The paper examines prospective memory (ProM) in programmer multitasking and reports administration of a naturalistic atypical action. The study emphasizes on how attention, time orientation, and expertise affect ProM performance in multitasking among a group of computer science and engineering students (N = 108). The results suggest that attention play a crucial role in multitasking and ProM performance with respect to whether or not a word display requires more attention to be devoted in monitoring and identifying it for an appropriate action. Polychrons exhibit lesser degree of ProM performance failure than monochrons whereas expertise does not have an effect. Finally, results show that out of overall ProM performance failure, habit intrusion errors comprise of 16.22% occurring 1.75 times in every 10 valid click responses of ProM task. Moreover, experts demonstrate a superior performance over novices in programming. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
 
Publisher ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
 
Date 2012-02-08T18:43:40Z
2012-02-08T18:43:40Z
2011
 
Type Article
 
Identifier INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES,69(6)428-439
1071-5819
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2011.01.006
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/13839
 
Language English