@article{ref1,
title="Is time-sharing a general capability?",
journal="Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society annual meeting",
year="1979",
author="Hawkins, Harold L. and Rodriguez, Elizabeth and Reicher, Gerald M.",
volume="23",
number="1",
pages="532-535",
abstract="The time-sharing ability of 18 students was measured under 8 separate dual-task conditions. Three distinct task characteristics were systematically varied across conditions in an effort to manipulate the nature of the specific time-sharing demands imposed. Each condition contained two of these characteristics in common with 3 of the remaining 7 conditions, one of the characteristics in common with 3 others, and none in common with the last condition. Time-sharing efficiency correlated across conditions that impose similar processing demands on the individual, but not across conditions imposing relatively dissimilar demands. We conclude that time-sharing performance under present conditions is determined by several poorly correlated, task-specific subcapacities rather than by a single general ability.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2169-5067",
doi="10.1177/1071181379023001132",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181379023001132"
}