Cognition is what helps people function in everyday life. It encompasses paying attention, concentrating, learning, strategizing, executing plans, comprehending language, self-expressing, as well as memory and recall. When it’s not working, people find it challenging to pay attention, process information quickly, remember or recall information, respond to information, think critically, or solve...

As automation continues to pervade people’s lives, it is critical understand the reasons why some interactions are successful while others fail. Previous research attempting explain this variability in HAI through individual differences working memory has been mixed. Research cognitive psychology demonstrated importance of attention control as a fundamental mechanism underlying higher-order cog...