The Effects of Task Load and Change Elements on Change Blindness

Abstract

The experiment discussed in this paper looks at effects of high and low task loads on detecting change in three conditions; the Control, Change, and Inverse.  We wanted to look at how detection of a change may be impacted by the kind of change occurring and the task load.  Our first hypothesis predicts that the high-load task will result in more misidentification of the target element than the low-load task.  Our other hypothesis predicts the Inverse condition will result in more correctly identified target elements than the Change condition.  Our results did not support our first hypothesis of the task load as there were no main effects in Load in the first two datasets.  Our second hypothesis was not supported and the results showed that the inverse condition was misidentified more so than the Change condition.