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Human Information Processing

Information processing lies at the heart of human performance. In a plethora of situations in which humans interact with systems, the operator must perceive information, transform that information into different forms, take actions on the basis of the perceived and transformed information, and process the feedback from that action, assessing its effect on the environment.

C. D. Wickens & C. M. Carswell2012

INTRODUCTION

The human information-processing approach to studying behavior characterizes the human as a communication system that receives input from the environment, acts on that input, and then outputs a response back to the environment. We use the information-processing approach to develop models ...

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