Duncan P. Brumby

TL;DR: Examining the effects of iPod interaction by drivers navigating a typical roadway in a driving simulator showed that selecting media on the iPod had a significant effect on driver performance as measured by lateral deviation from lane center, comparable to previously reported effects of dialing a cellular phone.

TL;DR: There is a need for human-automation interaction research to focus on issues of function and task allocation between humans and machines and the balance between focus, divided attention and attention management.

TL;DR: The results suggest that longer resumption lags following an interruption are beneficial in terms of reducing the likelihood of errors being made, and the practical implications of how systems might be designed to encourage more reflective task resumption behavior are discussed.

TL;DR: Analysis supported the idea that interleaving at chunk boundaries efficiently traded the time given up to dialing with the maintenance of a central lane position, and discussed the implications of this work in terms of contributions to understanding how cognitive constraints shape strategy adaptations in dynamic multitask environments.

TL;DR: A study in which participants manually dialed a UK-style telephone number while driving a simulated vehicle shows that drivers choose to return attention to steering control before the natural subtask boundary, supporting the idea that people can strategically control the allocation of attention in multitask settings to meet specific performance criteria.