Examining the effects of passive and active strategy use during interactive search for LEGO® bricks.

Hout, Michael C.; White, Bryan; Madrid, Jessica; Godwin, H. J.; Scarince, Collin

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“…People often search for products simply with the visual system (e.g., X‐ray baggage screening/medical screening), however researchers have noted the importance of interactive searches in which search involves both the eyes and the hands (Hout et al., 2021). This work suggests that during search in a busy and cluttered environment, active searchers are faster to locate targets relative to passive and uninstructed searchers.…”

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A review of touch research in consumer psychology

Krishna,

Luangrath,

Peck

2024

J Consum Psychol

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This article details the theoretical foundation of haptics in consumer research. We structure the review using a continuum from proximal touch‐based interactions to increasingly distal interactions through devices, imagery, or language use. We begin with a focus on product/object touch in marketing highlighting touch for haptic information, touch for haptic pleasure, and touch for nonhaptic functional reasons. We then elaborate on research considering work compensating for actual touch through various mechanisms including device‐mediated touch and imagery processing. Next, we examine interpersonal touch followed by a discussion on touch in sensory words and textual paralanguage. The authors note various avenues for future research in haptics with the aim to encourage research in consumer psychology and marketing.

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Section: Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of touch research in consumer psychology

Krishna,

Luangrath,

Peck

2024

J Consum Psychol

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Finding Lego Bricks With Our Eyes and Our Hands

Hout¹,

White²,

Madrid³

et al. 2022

Front. Young Minds

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Visual search is the act of looking for—and hopefully finding—something that is important or that you need. You probably do this every day, like when you must find your backpack before heading off to school. Sometimes you can find what you are looking for just by using your eyes, but other times also you have to use your hands, like when you are looking for a pencil in a cluttered drawer. This is called “interactive search” because it involves interacting with the search environment by moving things around with your hands. In our study, we investigated how to make people better interactive searchers by asking them to find specific LEGO bricks in trays full of bricks. We found that people are actually better at this task when they direct their attention and actively search for targets, vs. when they use a relaxed search strategy.

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Priming effects in inefficient visual search: Real, but transient

Wolfe

Suresh

Dewulf³

et al. 2022

Atten Percept Psychophys

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In visual search tasks, responses to targets on one trial can influence responses on the next trial. Most typically, target repetition speeds response while switching to a different target slows response. Such “priming” effects have sometimes been given very significant roles in theories of search (e.g., Theeuwes, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 368, 1628, 2013 ). Most work on priming has involved “singleton” or “popout” tasks. In non-popout priming tasks, observers must often perform a task-switching operation because the guiding template for one target (e.g., a red vertical target in a conjunction task) is incompatible with efficient search for the other target (green horizontal, in this example). We examined priming in inefficient search where the priming feature (Color: Experiments 1 – 3 , Shape: Experiments 4 – 5 ) was irrelevant to the task of finding a T among Ls. We wished to determine if finding a red T on one trial helped observers to be more efficient if the next T was also red. In all experiments, we found additive priming effects. The reaction time (RT) for the second trial was shorter if the color of the T was repeated. However, there was no interaction with set size. The slope of the RT × Set Size function was not shallower for runs of the same target color, compared to trials where the target color switched. We propose that priming might produce transient guidance of the earliest deployments of attention on the next trial or it might speed decisions about a selected target. Priming does not appear to guide attention over the entire search.

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Examining the effects of passive and active strategy use during interactive search for LEGO® bricks.

Cited by 3 publications

References 69 publications

A review of touch research in consumer psychology

A review of touch research in consumer psychology

Finding Lego Bricks With Our Eyes and Our Hands

Priming effects in inefficient visual search: Real, but transient

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