CONTINUOUS VERSUS INTERMITTENT DISPLAY OF INFORMATION

It is common in systems in which humans and machines continually interact for the human to have to comprehend an informational display in a fixed amount of time. If information is displayed for a fixed amount of time, it is usually presented continuously rather than intermittently. Although there is some literature to support this practice, it is scarce. This paper suggests that a continuous display is optimal in certain instances only, while in other cases, repeated presentations of the same information leads to a higher retention rate. The paper also proposes an equation relating the number of items reported to the total time the information is displayed and to the number of presentations. To reconcile the apparent contradiction in optimal methods of presentation, the paper identifies three stages in the processing of visually presented information.

• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  Human Factors Society

  Johns Hopkins University Press
  Baltimore, MD  United States  21218
• Authors:
  • Hepler, S P
• Publication Date: 1976-4

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 183-188
• Serial:
  • Human Factors
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0018-7208
  • EISSN: 1547-8181
  • Serial URL: http://hfs.sagepub.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Control devices; Human factors; Human machine systems; Safety; Visual perception
• Old TRIS Terms: Man-machine interfaces
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00141114
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 26 1976 12:00AM