Effects of Task Switching In Baggage Screeners. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zish, Kevin; Erchov, Simone; Eisert, Jesse; McKee, Charles; Endres, Daniel; Band, David
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society ... Annual Meeting. Volume 64:Part 1(2020)
• Page Start: 381
• Page End: 385
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: Human engineering -- Congresses; 620.8205
• DOI: 10.1177/1071181320641086
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1541-9312

Abstract

Using a visual search and decision-making task, we investigated common task switching effects on baggage screeners. Like the general population, baggage screeners perform best when there is no task switching as shown by a high sustained d' and fast decision time. Although baggage screeners continue to improve throughout the task, task switching results in functional decay of the memory for the current decision-criterion.