Slip errors and cue salience

Jonathan Back, Ann Blandford, Paul Curzon
2007 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Cognitive ergonomics invent! explore! - ECCE '07  
Motivation -Many empirical accounts of slip errors have focused on identifying causal factors. However, to what extent can avoiding slip errors be considered a cognitive skill? Research approach -A series of experiments have shown that some actions seem to "spring to mind" for the performance of a task, whereas others do not, and that the latter are much more likely than the former to feature in erroneous actions. Findings -The results suggest that procedural and sensory cues need to be strong
more » ... nough to capture a participant's attention away from actions that "spring to mind".
doi:10.1145/1362550.1362595 dblp:conf/ecce/BackBC07 fatcat:625hybs6pbgivl7hb2vpgq44fi