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- Title
Performance in Tangible and in Cognitive Stock-Flow Tasks.
- Authors
Strohhecker, Jürgen; Größler, Andreas
- Abstract
Background. Most research in the area of dynamic decision making in general and stock-flow failures in particular is conducted with the help of computerized simulations as task environments or paper-based tasks of simple dynamic systems.Purpose. The purpose of this article is to investigate if stock-flow failures persist in naturalistic decision making environments.Methods. For this purpose, a tangible stock-flow experiment is used. It asks participants to meet a target level of water in a glass by pouring water through a funnel as fast as possible. We then compare their performance with a purely cognitive task (a manufacturing task).Results. Participants on average did not significantly perform better in a tangible stock-flow task than in a paper-based test of a comparable task. In addition, individual performance in the tangible task cannot be related to performance in a similar paper-pencil stock-flow task.Conclusions. An implication of this study is that tangible stock-flow tasks are as difficult for humans to control as are purely cognitive tasks. Further research should address individual differences between the two task modes (tangible vs. cognitive). A limitation of this study is the usage of only one tangible stock-flow task.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE structures; TASK performance; INDIVIDUAL differences; PERFORMANCE standards; WORK structure
- Publication
Simulation & Gaming, 2015, Vol 46, Issue 3-4, p230
- ISSN
1046-8781
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1046878115577160