The Efficiency of Using Reference Cue for Designing an Inclusive Control-Display Device

This study investigates the efficiency of using reference cue for designing an inclusive control-display device. The experiment has a (cognitive styles) × (spatial S-R pairing patterns) × (reference cue types) design. Three independent variables are cognitive styles, spatial S-R pairing patterns and reference cue types. Cognitive styles variable includes field-dependent and field-independent cognitive styles. Spatial S-R pairing patterns variable consists of a correspondent pairing task and a non-correspondent pairing task. Reference cue types variable includes the reference cue and no-reference cue types of spatial S-R pairing tasks. participants were randomly chosen from different departments in National Yunlin University of Science and Technology in accordance with their CSA scores. The experiment results show that both cognitive styles did not perform no significantly better in both reference cue tasks, implying the useless of reference cue for enhancing the performance of field-dependent-independent cognitive styles in a spatial S-R pairing tasks. Therefore, reference cue is not suggested for designing an inclusive control-display device for all users.