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Locomotion significantly impacts cognitive task performance, especially with audiovisual displays. Visual information is less affected by high cognitive and movement demands compared to auditory cues, suggesting tailored wearable tech for mobile work.

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Area of Science:

Human-computer interaction
Cognitive neuroscience
Human factors engineering

Background:

Modern workplaces demand processing audiovisual information during locomotion.
The influence of movement on attentional demands of wearable devices is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how information presentation modality, movement state, and cognitive task difficulty interact.
To understand cognitive-motor interference in mobile work contexts.

Main Methods:

22 participants performed a cued task-switch paradigm in a virtual reality lab.
Tasks were performed while standing, walking, or walking with perturbations on a treadmill.
Data collected included questionnaires, behavioral responses, and mobile electroencephalography (EEG).

Main Results:

Locomotion interfered with cognitive task performance.
Auditory cues improved performance under low cognitive load, while visual cues were less impaired by high cognitive and locomotor demands.
EEG analysis revealed multi-modal attentional mechanisms underlying these differences.

Conclusions:

Information presentation on wearable devices should be adapted to specific task demands.
Visual information is more resilient to cognitive and locomotor demands than auditory information.
Tailoring information delivery is crucial for cognitively demanding tasks in mobile work settings.