Chapter 18 Palmtop reminding devices (original) (raw)

Human Factors in Information Technology, 1999

Abstract

ABSTRACT This chapter reviews recent findings about the ways palmtop reminding devices remind people of their intentions and presents a theoretical examination of the fundamental cognitive processes involved in the use of these devices. There are two kinds of reminding processes: spontaneous and prearranged. For a person to spontaneously recall an intended act, a memory of the intention must emerge from unconsciousness to consciousness. A striking feature of the reminding devices is that they differ considerably in the way they display information about the scheduled events to be accessed. Prospective memory performance has been conceptualized as involving different information processing stages. These stages include encoding the intention, specifying the retention interval, deploying a response to occur within the response interval (which may be at a precise time or within an interval), observing the outcome of the act, and finally evaluating the effect of the intended act.

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