>>12702322I have scanned his paper. I‘m not specialized in human machine interactions. Thinking about his methodology I can’t help, but suspect the test isn’t suited to really correlate certain human machine interaction patterns with individual human characteristics in all circumstances. Correct me, if I‘m wrong, but he says
>Each day they were assigned two tasks. The first was an open-ended blogging task, where they were instructed to write blog-style articles related in some way to the city in which the testing was carried out. This task was allocated 6 hours of the 8 hour workday. The second task was less open-ended. Each employee was given a list of topic or web articles to write a summary of. The articles were from a variety of reputable news sources, and were kept consistent between users except for a few broken links due to the expired lifetime of the linked pages. This second task was allocated 2 hours of the 8 hour workday.Both tasks encouraged the workers to do extensive online research by using the web browser. They were allowed to copy and paste content, but they were instructed that the final work they produced was to be of their own authorship.
Seems like a specific kind of task. There isn’t really any indication of these patterns being consistent throughout varying tasks.
