Effect of background music in a computer word processing task

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 165-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arijit K. Sengupta ◽  
Xiaopeng Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Word Processing ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Processing Task ◽  
Computer Word

Statistical Packages for Personal Computers

1983 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 182-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Grafton ◽  
Anne Permaloff
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Computer Software ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Word Processor ◽  
Personal Computers ◽  
Computer Center ◽  
Price Range ◽  
Personal Computer Software ◽  
Computer Word

An impressive number of reasonably priced personal computer software packages of interest to political scientists are now on the market. Owners of computers such as the TRS-80 Model III and the Apple II can purchase software for word processing and statistical analysis which can substantially increase their productivity. Scholars trying to meet publication deadlines need no longer be delayed by harried secretaries trying single-handedly to meet the needs of an entire department. A computer/word processor used by a typist of average ability is nearly the equal of a good professional secretary. And those with even fairly large statistical analysis requirements may no longer be tied to the university's hectic “computer center” where they must wait in line for terminals, try to think amid constant movement and never-ending conversation, or suffer errors produced by noise injected between their terminal and the main frame along telephone lines.This is an analysis of statistical packages sold by four companies for use on a variety of low, moderate, and high priced personal computers. Our focus on these packages reflects our statistical needs for research and teaching. We were looking for programs capable of handling relatively large data bases and with the capacity to perform multiple regression and time series analyses. We needed a program that could be used to analyze data generated from small survey samples. This required both frequency distribution and contingency table development and analysis. Finally, we needed a program or programs in an affordable price range.

Facilitating Written Work Using Computer Word Processing and Word Prediction

2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Handley-More ◽  
J. Deitz ◽  
F. F. Billingsley ◽  
T. E. Coggins
Keyword(s):  
Word Processing ◽  
Word Prediction ◽  
Computer Word

The Crisis of Collegiality in Scientific Organization, and the Scientific Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-22
Author(s):  
Alexander Yu. Antonovski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Scientific Organization ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Scientific Policy ◽  
New Organizational Forms ◽  
Computer Word ◽  
Scientific System

The article substantiates that science, thanks to the latest media in the dissemination of scientific communication (especially computer word processing, big data accumulation, mega-science installations, the latest international networking platforms and collaborations), has gone beyond all institutional, organizational, regional, national and partly disciplinary borders. Science as a supranational communication system has reached a complexity that is incompatible with the standards for evaluating scientific work and scientific achievements, which are traditionally carried out in the form of scientific committees, individual examinations and other collegial forms of scientific communication. The collegiality of making the most important decisions regarding the examination of the scientific product itself, the thematic agenda, professional competencies and the resulting distribution of remuneration, reputation, ranks, degrees, grants has exhausted its capabilities to a certain extent. As a result, science turns out to be opaque both for the regulator, who is trying to exercise control over scientific institutions, and for science itself, which in the form of scientific self-government and philosophical reflection of science carries out the function of self-observation and self-description. A working hypothesis is proposed, which states that in response to this crisis of collegiality, reflection and control, new media of communicative success and new organizational forms of scientific communication crystallize in science, which can restore the ability of a scientific system to process its internal and external complexity. These media are represented by a new, social-networked form of scientific expertise and partly scientific work, which will be able to compensate for the lack of self-reflection, both at the organizational level of research institutes and at the level of global control over science as a whole.

Effect of Comfort on Mood States Affecting Performance

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 483-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajendra Paul ◽  
Jane Morrow ◽  
Martin Helander
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mood States ◽  
Mental Performance ◽  
Processing Task ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Physical Comfort ◽  
Office Furniture

This study investigated the hypothesis that excessive physical comfort adversely affects mood states generally associated with superior mental performance. This hypothesis was explored in an experiment on office chairs. Eleven subjects evaluated three chair designs varying in comfort for eight hours on three separate days. The subjects performed a word processing task from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Comfort and discomfort were evaluated using the Shackel Scale and the Corlett Scale. Mood states were evaluated using a mood profile survey. The results suggested that the most comfortable chair induced mental mood states such as boredom, tiredness, sluggishness, (lack of) alertness and (less) energetic feeling which are generally associated with lower mental performance. It is suggested that for knowledge workers, comfort and performance may follow an inverted-U relationship. Too little or too much comfort may be detrimental to both physical and mental performance. This moderation on the view of comfort has considerable implications for the design of the modern workplace, particularly for office furniture. Its relevance to the sedentary work-styles prevalent in the United States is also discussed.

Subjective Preference and use of Workstation Adjustability Features

1986 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 890-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Hozeski
Keyword(s):  
Data Base ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Processing Task ◽  
Subjective Preference ◽  
The Chairs ◽  
Female Subjects

In 18 separate 2-hour sessions, 22 female subjects performed a word processing task while seated on 6 different chairs in front of VDT's that were placed on 3 different worksurfaces. The chair types included posturetilt, swivel-tilt, synchro-tilt, and static with adjustability. The worlsurfaces consisted of a multilevel fixed surface, a fixed surface with adjustable accessories for a keyboard and display, and a fully adjustable worksurface. In addition to the word processing task, the subjects preferentially ranked both chairs and worksurfaces and rated each chair for comfort attributes on various body parts. The data base was subjected to an analysis of variance with the sources being chair, worksurface, and the possible interaction of these products, the results showed significant f-ratios for chairs. A similar finding was also observed for the work-surfaces. An examination of the net words per minute data found that a preferred chair and/or worksurface was identifiable. Analysis of a body-parts comfort scale did not differentiate significantly between the chairs or worksurfaces.

scholarly journals Holistic processing of faces and words predicts reading accuracy and speed in dyslexic readers

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0259986
Author(s):  
Nuala Brady ◽  
Kate Darmody ◽  
Fiona N. Newell ◽  
Sarah M. Cooney
Keyword(s):  
Face Processing ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
Reading Task ◽  
Processing Task ◽  
Reading Accuracy ◽  
Visual Deficit ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
First Time ◽  
Accurate Reading

We compared the performance of dyslexic and typical readers on two perceptual tasks, the Vanderbilt Holistic Face Processing Task and the Holistic Word Processing Task. Both yield a metric of holistic processing that captures the extent to which participants automatically attend to information that is spatially nearby but irrelevant to the task at hand. Our results show, for the first time, that holistic processing of faces is comparable in dyslexic and typical readers but that dyslexic readers show greater holistic processing of words. Remarkably, we show that these metrics predict the performance of dyslexic readers on a standardized reading task, with more holistic processing in both tasks associated with higher accuracy and speed. In contrast, a more holistic style on the words task predicts less accurate reading of both words and pseudowords for typical readers. We discuss how these findings may guide our conceptualization of the visual deficit in dyslexia.

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