Helps decide on urgency

On the Urgency Expressiveness

Waiting to decide helps in the face of probabilistic uncertainty but not delay uncertainty.

A first-person shooter video game was adapted for the study of causal decision making within dynamic environments. Participants chose which of three potential targets in each of 21 groups was producing distal explosions. The source of the explosion effect varied in the delay between the firing of its weapon and its effect (0.0, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 s), the probability that the weapon caused the ef...

Multimodal urgency coding: auditory, visual, and tactile parameters and their impact on perceived urgency.

Through a series of investigations involving different levels of contextual fidelity we developed scales of perceived urgency for several dimensions of the auditory, visual, and tactile modalities. Psychophysical ratings of perceived urgency, annoyance, and acceptability as well as behavioral responses to signals in each modality were obtained and analyzed using Steven's Power Law to allow comp...

How to decide on software testing techniques?

The urgency of immersions.