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Pub. period:1990-2012
Pub. count:5
Number of co-authors:9

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Michael B. Dillard:2
Caryn E. Penn:1
Sheila R. Black:1

Productive colleagues

David B. Boles's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Joel S. Warm:17
Gerald Matthews:14
Tyler H. Shaw:8

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Publications by David B. Boles (bibliography)

2012

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Dillard, Michael B., Boles, David B. and Black, Sheila R. (2012): Bidirectional Resource Training of Simple and Complex Tasks. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2012 Annual Meeting 2012. pp. 2462-2466.

“Transfer of trained skill was investigated from the viewpoint of mental resources. Participants alternated between a simple training task and a complex task, the video game Everyday Shooter. The training tasks, occlusions and visual words (Boles, 1991, 1992, 1996), shared many critical resources, or few resources, respectively, with the video game. Also, participants received standard task-specific instructions or standard instructions along with additional metacognitive instructions on similarities between the training task and video game. Bidirectional transfer was noted for those training the occlusions task and receiving standard instructions, demonstrating the value of resource training with an alternating design, even when the target task is a complex one.”

2010

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Boles, David B. and Penn, Caryn E. (2010): RESOURCE TRAINING USING ALTERNATING TASKS. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 54th Annual Meeting 2010. pp. 2357-2360.

“Resource training, the cross-training of tasks sharing mental resources, has been demonstrated using both pretest-posttest and dual task paradigms. Both of these methods have some disadvantages. The pretest-posttest paradigm separates tasks in time, making resource relationships less apparent to trainees. It is also inherently unidirectional, allowing assessment of effects on the target task but not on the training task. The dual-task paradigm solves these problems by requiring simultaneous performance of two tasks sharing resources but the disadvantage is that the nature of many tasks, especially complex ones, is not conducive to the use of dual-task methodology. Here a third method is used, the alternating task paradigm. By alternating, the tasks are not structured as dual tasks yet are minimally separated in time, and the effects of each on the other are assessable. Use of the paradigm with simple tasks demonstrates that resource training does occur. While the results are promising, it remains to be seen whether resource training is effective with complex tasks, and whether making resource relationships explicit can augment transfer of training.”

2009

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Finomore, Victor S., Shaw, Tyler H., Warm, Joel S., Matthews, Gerald, Weldon, Dave and Boles, David B. (2009): On the Workload of Vigilance: Comparison of the NASA-TLX and the MRQ. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting 2009. pp. 1057-1061.

“The utility of the Multiple Resources Questionnaire (MRQ) as a workload index in vigilance was assessed by comparing the sensitivity of the scale to that of the NASA Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) in response to challenges provided by variations in task-type and operating environment. Both instruments showed that global workload was high and that it was greater in the context of Successive (absolute judgment) as compared to Simultaneous (comparative judgment) type tasks. In addition, the MRQ indicated that workload was greater when observers operated in a multi-task as compared to a single-task environment, a dimension to which the NASA-TLX was not sensitive. The MRQ added to diagnosticity in the workload picture by identifying information-processing resources utilized across experimental conditions and sets of resources that were condition specific, resources not encompassed by the NASA-TLX. The results of this study indicate that the MRQ can be of effective value in measuring the workload imposed by vigilance tasks.”

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Dillard, Michael B. and Boles, David B. (2009): Interference between Visuospatial Dual Tasks and the Effects of Training. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting 2009. pp. 1888-1892.

“The mechanisms involved in reducing interference in visuospatial dual tasks were investigated. Three computerized visuospatial tasks, bargraphs, dot clusters, and occlusions (Boles, 1991, 1992, 1996) comprised the dual tasks. To compare the roles of automaticity and encapsulation, one group practiced dual tasks drawing upon separate processes while another practiced dual tasks drawing upon the same process. The results suggest automaticity plays a larger role in reducing interference than encapsulation. They also support the existence of resource training, in which practicing a mental resource in one task shows transfer to another task using the same resource.”

1990

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Jaynes, Linda S. and Boles, David B. (1990): The Effect of Symbols on Warning Compliance. In: D., Woods, and E., Roth, (eds.) Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 34th Annual Meeting 1990, Santa Monica, USA. pp. 984-987.

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