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Cognitive psychology and the design of alarm sounds

✍ Scribed by J. Edworthy; C.S. Meredith

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Weight: 680 KB
Volume: 16
Category: Article
ISSN: 1350-4533
DOI: 10.1016/1350-4533(94)90067-1

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✦ Synopsis

One of the loss desirable feature> about trrhnological adrmnrrc in nwdicinp i.s that individuals working with sophistirated moniton'ng equipment are often bombarded by warning sounds and signals. Howeuer, there QW rome basic ccpitive psychologz'ral pn'nciplps which sugpt that the over-USP of audito? warninCgs in such rirrumstanres may by rountm-produrtivr. This review highlights SOW o$ the.Te prinriples, arguing that future systems should place more emphasis upon rqgnitivp capabilitie,y and predispositions in their design. l(tx-oming alarms standards where issuRc such as thP number of alarms, their r~roCgnizability, and the prinriple of 'urgmq mapfiing' are disrussed with relation to the rognitivp fisyrhology of .round.

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