Questionnaire survey on attention of young adults

Abstract

Attention plays an important role in guaranteeing the safety and efficiency of task operation. People may get distracted by various internal and external causes. There are differences between individuals in their reaction to the distractions. Understanding the characteristics of attention is the basis for human-machine interface design. In this study, a questionnaire was designed, which concerned personality, environment, task, biological clock, self awareness and self control etc. 138 questionnaires were collected from young adults. Based on the questionnaires, the features of young adults’ attention were described. The study results are helpful for the designer to know young people better in the attention characteristics, so as to get benefits for man-machine interface and task design.