A Relief from Mental Overload in a Digitalized World: How Context-Sensitive User Interfaces Can Enhance Cognitive Performance

Gauselmann, Paula; Runge, Yannick; Jilek, Christian; Frings, Christian; Maus, Heiko; Tempel, Tobias

doi:10.1080/10447318.2022.2041882

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“…Given the expansion of technology and the convenience of storing information on digital devices, tools can be developed to facilitate memory. These could involve information management tools that offer software-assisted cognitive offloading, capable of automatically storing and representing information based on its relevance to the current task, or making suggestions about what information should be saved based on upcoming activities (see also Gauselmann et al, 2023).…”

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An investigation of the saving‐enhanced memory effect: The role of test order and list saving

Tsai

Sachdeva

Gilbert

et al. 2023

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Saving information onto external resources can improve memory for subsequent information-a phenomenon known as the saving-enhanced memory effect. This article reports two preregistered online experiments investigating (A) whether this effect holds when to-be-remembered information is presented before the saved information and (B) whether people choose the most advantageous strategy when given free choice of which information to save. Participants studied two lists of words; test order and whether and which list was saved (and re-presented again later) were manipulated.The saving-enhanced memory effect was only found when the first list (List A) was saved and tested after the second list (List B). When free to choose which list to save, participants preferred to save List A, but only when it was recalled after List B-that is, when it benefited memory. These findings suggest boundary conditions for the savingenhanced memory effect and that people offload the most profitable information.

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An investigation of the saving‐enhanced memory effect: The role of test order and list saving

Tsai

Sachdeva

Gilbert

et al. 2023

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…Given the knowledge about the disturbed cognitive process, we can leverage the appropriate techniques to address the problem, e.g. by utilizing context switching [5] or cognitive offloading [13]. In our future work we aim to elaborate on connections between walkthrough questions and underlying cognitive processes and to provide the appropriate mitigating techniques for revealed issues.…”

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An Approach to Evaluate User Interfaces in a Scholarly Knowledge Communication Domain

Obrezkov,

Oelen,

Auer

2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The amount of research articles produced every day is overwhelming: scholarly knowledge is getting harder to communicate and easier to get lost. A possible solution is to represent the information in knowledge graphs: structures representing knowledge in networks of entities, their semantic types, and relationships between them. But this solution has its own drawback: given its very specific task, it requires new methods for designing and evaluating user interfaces. In this paper, we propose an approach for user interface evaluation in the knowledge communication domain. We base our methodology on the well-established Cognitive Walkthough approach but employ a different set of questions, tailoring the method towards domain-specific needs. We demonstrate our approach on a scholarly knowledge graph implementation called Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG).

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“…That sidebar saving goes along with significantly reduced right DLPFC activity during subsequent arithmetic tasks fits well with the notion that beneficial effects of cognitive offloading on current task execution are mediated by reduced working memory load 8 . The DLPFC has a crucial role in working memory processes 22 , 23 . In particular, it has been assumed that the DLPFC is tasked with upholding, updating and manipulating task relevant information 24 .…”

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A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study on the prefrontal correlates of cognitive offloading via a personal knowledge assistant

Geissler,

Gauselmann,

Jilek

et al. 2023

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The saving of previously encoded information boosts both memory for subsequent information (saving-enhanced memory; SEM) as well as cognitive performance in general (saving-enhanced performance; SEP). These findings have been replicated in a setting that involves the assistance by an intelligent software that automatically structures and saves work content in an interactive sidebar. It is assumed that beneficial effects on cognitive performance due to (automatic) saving are caused by a reduction in current workload by means of cognitive offloading. We tested this assumption by measuring neural activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) via functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)—once after saving and once after deleting of previously collected information that had to be recalled later-on. On a behavioral level, there was a brief benefit of saving. However, cognitive offloading became most apparent on a neural level: after saving, participants showed significantly lower activation in the right DLPFC. Also, the more participants benefited from cognitive offloading, the more they were able to re-access previously collected, saved information. Thus, fNIRS results indicated reduced mental load after saving, confirming the assumption that saving triggers cognitive offloading.

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A Relief from Mental Overload in a Digitalized World: How Context-Sensitive User Interfaces Can Enhance Cognitive Performance

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

An investigation of the saving‐enhanced memory effect: The role of test order and list saving

An investigation of the saving‐enhanced memory effect: The role of test order and list saving

An Approach to Evaluate User Interfaces in a Scholarly Knowledge Communication Domain

A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study on the prefrontal correlates of cognitive offloading via a personal knowledge assistant

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