Clinician cognitive overload

Productivity in the Cognitive Overload Era

Effects of Information Overload, #2: Cognitive Disability

What we’re talking about here is a reduction in a wide range of mental capacities, all of them highly relevant to the performance of knowledge work. Knowledge is power, but the body of research shows that too much of it makes you – well – stupid. Various researchers have investigated the detailed effects of this problem in multiple areas of cognitive performance, and I highlight their main resu...

Cognitive overload and communication in two healthcare settings.

The confluence of organizational social interaction and cognitive information processing constraints create 'noisy' conditions in institutionalized settings. Attentional and memory limitations always influence the ability of participants to comprehend each other's communication. Two organizational settings (a medical specialty clinic and periodontal office) will be used to explore a few feature...

Cognitive Augmentation for Coping with Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Overload

Responding to cognitive overload: Co-adaptation between users and technology

This study examines how the first users of the X-Window system, the administrative staff at MIT's Project Athena, coped with this complex new technology. By examining their use of customization files over a period of six months, we were able to track how they responded to both organizational and technological changes. We found clear evidence of co-adaptation: individuals both adapted to the new...