ABSTRACT
In systemic-structural activity theory, cognition is considered as a process and as a system of cognitive actions and operations. Cognition also can be considered from the functional perspective as a goal-directed, self-regulative system, where various stages of self-regulation are presented as functional mechanisms or function blocks. This chapter presents the latest version of the model of the self-regulation of orienting activity. Orienting activity is an important psychological concept that can be applied in the studies that are aimed at improving efficiency of performance, and situation awareness just strives to explain one possible mechanism in activity regulation. The chapter also presents the analysis of various types of eye and mouse movement relationships via studying tasks with different characteristics of the interface usability. The basic characteristics of eye movement analysis are saccades and fixation. The eye and mouse movements had various qualitative relationships due to differences in the eye-mouse coordination during task performance of the Pilot.
