Choice and Perceived Control: Implications for the Design of Displays

Abstract

This report summarizes several years of research on how offering subjects a choice of task parameters leads to a perception of control over their environment, which in turn can lead to improved task performance. The development of a theoretical explanation of the phenomenon is traced, and implications for the design of displays are deduced and illustrated with hypothetical examples.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA208400

Entities

People

  • Lawrence C. Perlmuter
  • Richard A. Monty

Organizations

  • Human Engineering Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

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  • Abstracts
  • Air Traffic
  • Automation
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Discrimination
  • Engineering
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Learning
  • Motivation
  • Perception
  • Reaction Time
  • Recognition
  • Target Discrimination
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Workload

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  • Systems Analysis and Design
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