Date of Award
Spring 2004
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Master of Science in Human Factors & Systems
Department
Human Factors and Systems
Committee Chair
Christina Frederick, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Jon French, Ph.D.
Committee Member
John Griffin
Abstract
Prospective memory, or memory for future intents, is an important part of everyone's daily life. Air traffic controllers whose jobs are based in an environment that taxes their memory resources for extended periods of time rely on this type of memory. Controllers objectives often change based on incoming information and the amount of traffic they are controlling. It is important to investigate how controllers form intentions for future events, what processes facilitate retrieval of this information, and establish what influence experience may have. This study proposes to assess controllers in an air traffic scenario by employing a cognitive task analysis to determine when intentions are formed. The experimenter expects that controllers who form explicit intentions for specified future actions will perform better and that experience will facilitate intention formation.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Nagle, Jennifer, "An Analysis of Intention Formation as a Function of Prospective Memory in Air Traffic Controllers" (2004). Master's Theses - Daytona Beach. 155.
https://commons.erau.edu/db-theses/155
