Applied Attention Theory, Second Edition provides details concerning the relevance of all aspects of attention to the world beyond the laboratory. Topic application areas include the design of warning systems to capture attention; attention distractions in the workplace; failures of dividing attention while driving; and the measurement of mental workload while flying. This new edition discusses the implications of VR and AR for human attention. It also covers the treatment of attention-based pedagogical methods used to enhance learning and presents attentional issues in interacting with automation and AI. New chapters include applications of attention to healthcare, education pedagogy, highway safety, and human interaction with autonomous vehicles and other AI systems. The readership for this book is the professional, the researcher, and the student.

Forming connections between human performance and design, this new edition of Engineering Psychology and Human Performance examines human–machine interaction. The book is organized directly from a psychological perspective of human information processing, and chapters correspond to the flow of information as it is processed by a human being—from the senses, through the brain, to action—rather than from the perspective of system components or engineering design concepts. Upon completing this book, readers will be able to identify how human ability contributes to the design of technology; understand the connections within human information processing and human performance; challenge the way they think about technology’s influence on human performance; and show how theoretical advances have been, or might be, applied to improving human–machine interactions.

This new edition includes the following key features:

A new chapter on research methods

Sections on interruption management and distracted driving as cogent examples of applications of engineering psychology theory to societal problems

A greatly increased number of references to pandemics, technostress, and misinformation

New applications

Amplified emphasis on readability and commonsense examples

Updated and new references throughout the text

This book is ideal for psychology and engineering students, as well as practitioners in engineering psychology, human performance, and human factors. The text is also supplemented by online resources for students and instructors.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Research Methods 3. Signal Detection and Absolute Judgment 4. Attention in Perception and Display Space 5. Spatial Displays 6. Spatial Cognition, Navigation, and Manual Control 7. Language and Communication 8. Memory and Training 9. Decision Making 10. Selection of Action 11. Multitasking 12. Mental Workload and Stress 13. Human-Automation Interaction