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Developing Tools to Measure Perceptual Speed and Visual Working Memory
2025 International Conference on Graphics and Interaction (ICGI)
Year (definitive publication)
2025
Language
English
Country
Portugal
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Abstract
The lack of accessible, easy-to-use tools for measuring cognitive abilities poses a challenge for researchers, who often need to divert time and resources to develop their own psychometric tests. To address this gap, we developed a web application and made it available to the visualization community. The tool provides validated, literature-based tests to assess Perceptual Speed through comparison tasks and Visual Working Memory through change detection tests. We demonstrate its use in a research study involving 212 participants, successfully measuring both cognitive abilities using our tool. By presenting the results for both cognitive abilities based on the distribution of values collected from all participants, we argue that our tool successfully measured these traits, enabling researchers to easily
gather this data without the need for custom development.
Acknowledgements
Work supported by national funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT) under projects UID/50021/2025 and UID/PRR/50021/2025.
Keywords
Visual Working Memory,Perceptual Speed,Cognitive Traits,Individual Differences
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Computer and Information Sciences - Natural Sciences
- Psychology - Social Sciences
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