Human performance and strategy in a two-variable optimization task

Autor:	K. R. Laughery, Colin G. Drury
Rok vydání:	1979
Předmět:	Mathematical optimization Variable (computer science) Engineering business.industry Range (statistics) Process control Information quality Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Human Factors and Ergonomics business Reliability (statistics) Simulation Task (project management)
Zdroj:	Ergonomics. 22:1325-1336
ISSN:	1366-5847 0014-0139
DOI:	10.1080/00140137908924706
Popis:	A two-variable optimization was used as a laboratory simulation of an industrial process control task. Human performance, measured by the number of steps needed to reach the optimum, was compared with performance of a non-linear optimization over a range of information quality conditions, obtained both by altering the precision and reliability of feedback information. Strategy was measured by observing step size and direction, and also by a post experimental questionnaire. Human performance was superior to algorithm performance, especially with degraded feedback information. Human observed and reported strategies were highly correlated. The subject's strategy could be modelled as a two-stage optimization where elimination of unlikely areas was followed by construction of a mental map of the region around the optimum.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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