scholarly journals Does rotary pursuit data predict mouse task performance? A pilot study

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuen-Keen Cheong ◽  
Son T. Pham ◽  
Lan T. Phan ◽  
Randa L. Shehab
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 548-556
Author(s):  
Saranda Bekteshi ◽  
Marco Konings ◽  
Inti Vanmechelen ◽  
Jan Deklerck ◽  
Els Ortibus ◽  
...  

1982 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Lucinda Hollifield

The purpose of this study was to determine if children's prior performance experience was a mediating factor in their performance of a dominant or novel task in an audience or no audience situation. Eighty 9-year-old boys were divided into experienced (n = 40) and nonexperienced (n = 40) groups based on prior youth sport experience and the absence of any performance experience before a formal audience. Half of each group learned a rotary pursuit task until they could perform the task with at least 60% accuracy. The other half did not practice the task. Groups were again divided for task performance in an audience or no audience situation so that the following treatments were observed for both experienced and nonexperienced groups: dominant task, no audience; dominant task, evaluative audience; novel task, no audience; novel task, evaluative audience. Task performance for each subject was five 20-sec trials on the photoelectric rotary pursuit task. The mean score of each set of five was used for data analysis. An audience of four passive adults was present in each audience condition and made evaluative notations following each performance. Results of a 2 × 2 × 2 (experience × task dominance × audience) ANOVA failed to support Zajonc's (1965) social facilitation theory and Cottrell's (1968) modification of this theory. The well-learned task was inhibited by the presence of an evaluative audience while performance of a novel task was enhanced. No significant experience effects were evident.


Author(s):  
Yuen-Keen Cheong ◽  
Son T. Pham ◽  
Lan T. Phan ◽  
Randa L. Shehab

Knight & Salvendy (1992) suggested that performance of mouse task depends on precision control and arm-hand steadiness. However, the claims lacked empirical support. This pilot study collected rotary pursuit data, measured by time-on-target (TOT), to assess participants' precision control ability. Performance of mouse task was operationalized using a Fitts' pointing task. Stepwise multiple regression revealed target diameter (D), distance amplitude (A), and TOT contributed to the variability of movement time (MT). Despite highly significant relations, the regression coefficients were so small that they offered little practical value. However, the results indicated that precision control ability is indeed predictive of the performance of mouse task. Several recommendations were made for subsequent studies, they include (i) psychomotor ability should be assessed using multiple trials, (ii) a wider range of ID values should be tested with, (iii) a multi-directional Fitts' paradigm should be employed, and (iv) the mouse task should be more representative of the direct manipulation paradigm.


2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 6903250020p1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keh-chung Lin ◽  
Yi-fang Wu ◽  
I-chen Chen ◽  
Pei-luen Tsai ◽  
Ching-yi Wu ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 574-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Welch

The question of whether the sense of presence in virtual environments (or telepresence with respect to teleoperator systems) is causally related to task performance remains unanswered because the appropriate studies have yet to be carried out. In this brief report, the author describes a strategy for resolving this issue and the results of a pilot study in which this strategy was implemented.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gadi Gilam ◽  
Bar Horing ◽  
Ronny Sivan ◽  
Noam Weinman ◽  
Sean C. Mackey

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document