{"pk":27187,"title":"Planning in Action: Interactivity Improves Planning Performance","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Planning is an everyday activity that is extended in timeand space, yet is frequently studied in the absence ofinteractivity. Successful planning relies on an array ofexecutive functions including self-control. Weinvestigated the effects of interactivity and self-controlon planning using a sequential-task paradigm. Half ofthe participants first completed a video-viewing taskrequiring self-control of visual attention, whereas theother half completed the same task without the self-control constraint. Next, and within each of thesegroups, half of the participants manipulated cards tocomplete their plan (high-interactivity condition); for theother half, plans were made with their hands down (low-interactivity condition). Planning performance wassignificantly better in the high- than in the low-interactivity conditions; however the self-controlmanipulation had no impact on planning performance.An exploration of individual differences revealed thatlong-term planning ability and non-planningimpulsiveness moderated the impact of interactivity onplanning. These findings suggest that interactivityaugments working memory resources and planningperformance, underscoring the importance of aninteractive perspective on planning research.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"personal planning"},{"word":"time management"},{"word":"distributed cognition"},{"word":"self-control"},{"word":"ego depletion"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pf013kj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Emma","middle_name":"","last_name":"Henderson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Kingston University","department":""},{"first_name":"Gaëlle","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vallée-Tourangeau","name_suffix":"","institution":"Kingston University","department":""},{"first_name":"Frédéric","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vallée-Tourangeau","name_suffix":"","institution":"Kingston University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27187/galley/16823/download/"}]}