Interruptions and distractions are a feature of work in most complex sociotechnical systems
in which people must handle multiple threads of work. Over the last 10–15 years there has …

When asked to think about the function of memory in everyday life, most people intuitively
refer to the capacity to remember things from the past, that is, to retrospectively retrieve …

An important cognitive function is the ability to remember to execute future tasks, a capability
known as prospective memory (PM). Workers in complex sociotechnical systems such as …

Reliable prospective memory (PM) functioning of individuals is essential for safe and
efficient outcomes of sociotechnical work systems such as air traffic control (ATC) …

Visual cues relating to an interrupted task can help people recover from workplace
interruptions. However, it is unclear whether visual cues relating to their next steps in a …

Objective: We tested the effectiveness of an illustrated divider (“the divider”) for bedside
emergency equipment drawers in an intensive care unit (ICU). In Study 1, we assessed …

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things
for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You …

Early research on prospective memory (PM) employed several naturalistic tasks for studying
PM (Kvavilashvili, 1992). However, with the development of the now standard laboratory …

Interruptions and distractions are a feature of work in most complex sociotechnical systems
in which people must handle multiple threads of work. Over the last 10-15 years there has …