Beautiful, Mark! & scary. I'd love to see the training package that you develop out of this. Hopefully you will figure a way to get it out to interested clubs.
Cheers Brett Kettle -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Newton Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2005 2:27 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: [Aus-soaring] Inattentional Blindness The Visual Cognition Lab at the Beckman Institute at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) studies human response to visible stimuli. In my opinion, some of their work has direct applicability to gliding look-out skills. Here's an example: Visit http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html There's a video there which takes a while to load (it's about 7.5 Mbytes). Be patient. When it has loaded, upon pressing "Play" you'll see a 45 second video which shows two teams (one in white shirts, one in black shirts) passing basketballs to each other. Your job is to count the number of passes carried out by people in white shirts. Ignore the people in black shirts, they're just a distraction. Perform this test *once*, and once only. Once you've noted down the count of passes, rewind the video and watch it again, this time without trying to count any passes. Is there anything unexpected about the film that you missed during the first viewing? Try it out with some friends around the workplace and you'll get some startling results. The conclusion drawn from this test is that humans will completely fail to perceive anything they're not giving direct attention to (there is a stack of other research carried out by the VisCog lab to back this up; this test isn't the only thing that has drawn them to this conclusion). They've produced a DVD which has about 20 examples like this http://www.viscog.com/contents.html The basketball video is one of the Selective Attention Task films. I think the Flicker Task, Gradual Task and Selective Attention Task have direct applicability to glider look-out training. I'm getting a copy of the video to evaluate its use for a lookout seminar at AUGC later in the year, but I thought I'd mention it here in case any other clubs might have the same thoughts I've had upon seeing this stuff. - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
