Understanding attention helps design control panels in cars and airplanes

Good example of how Effective tool circumvents human limits. But to understand how we circumvent our limit, we need to understand what these limits are first. (Knowledge workers are limited by their cognitive processes).

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References

Goldstein, Cognitive Psychology (p. 17)

For example, the notion that a selective attention filter mechanism (as Broadbent suggested) prevents a lot of information from reaching our awareness has a serious impact on how we should build control panels in cars and airplanes and/or how we could best design safe traffic situations (e.g., Theeuwes & Van Der Horst, 2017).