The impact of task and cognitive style on decision making effectiveness using a geographic information system

A laboratory experiment is conducted to investigate how two individual cognitive style factors, field dependence and need-for-cognition, relate to decision-making performance for a spatial task. The intent of the investigation is to establish a methodology for measuring cognitive fit for spatial tas...

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Published inJournal of end user computing Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 14 - 23
Main Authors Crossland, M D, Herschel, R T, Perkins, W C, Scudder, J N
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.01.2000
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Cognitive style
Decision making
Geographic information systems
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Summary:A laboratory experiment is conducted to investigate how two individual cognitive style factors, field dependence and need-for-cognition, relate to decision-making performance for a spatial task. The intent of the investigation is to establish a methodology for measuring cognitive fit for spatial tasks. The experiment assesses the performance of 142 subjects on a site location task where the problem complexity and availability of a geographic information system are manipulated on two levels. Significant relationships are found for both field dependence and need-for-cognition with the two dependent performance variables, solution time and percent error.
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ISSN:1063-2239
DOI:10.4018/joeuc.2000010102