Title
The impact of task and cognitive style on decision-making effectiveness using a geographic information system
Abstract
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. Copyright © 2000, Idea Group Publishing.
Department(s)
Computer Information Technology and Cybersecurity
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4018/joeuc.2000010102
Publication Date
1-1-2000
Recommended Citation
Crossland, Martin D., Richard T. Herschel, William C. Perkins, and Joseph N. Scudder. "The impact of task and cognitive style on decision-making effectiveness using a geographic information system." Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC) 12, no. 1 (2000): 14-23.
Journal Title
Journal of End User Computing
