Phone calls, messages, or emails: At work, we are interrupted and distracted several times a day. This is especially challenging when working from home due to Covid-19. In a recent study, we focused on how such interferences affect the performance of working memory. We could show that it is particularly difficult to get back to the primary task after an interruption. This was not the case with non-relevant distractions.
Recent findings on how interruptions affect working memory weiterlesenMonat: November 2020
New DFG project: Audio-visual perception in virtual and real 3D environments
Virtual realities (VR) open up completely new possibilities for psychological experiments compared to classical laboratory environments. However, it must be ensured that virtual environments represent reality as validly as possible. This will be investigated in a new research project at IfADo within the DFG priority program „Audictive“: The focus is on spatial perception and attention in three-dimensional space.
New DFG project: Audio-visual perception in virtual and real 3D environments weiterlesen
2nd German Summer School for Human Factors 2020
This September young scientists gathered three days within the German Summer School for Human Factors to discuss their research. The summer school is an annual event that is initiated by the Section of Engineering Psychology of the German Psychological Association. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the summer school was hold virtually; this time organized by IfADo-scientists.
2nd German Summer School for Human Factors 2020 weiterlesen