Check-Reading Accuracy as a Function of Pointer Alignment, Patterning and Viewing Angle

Sidney G. Dashevsky

Chapter 19 in Psychology and Industrial Productivity, 1981, pp 274-281 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Prior studies have shown that detecting a single deviant dial in a 4 × 4 matrix can be markedly improved by aligning the null position of the pointers. In the present study, efficiency in a similar task was rendered 85 per cent more efficient by continuing the line formed by the pointers across the entire panel face. The deviant dial then appeared as a break in a line, a finding consonant with the Gestalt principle of figurai continuity. No significant difference was found between the 9 and 12 o’clock orientations for null pointers, nor did any significant difference emerge when displays were presented to the front and the sides of Ss.

Keywords: Error Detection; Apply Psychology; Null Pointer; Correlate Means; Degree Deviation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04809-0_19

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