The measured attention of lab science was defined by duration and person-machine coupling.

Evidence

It was durational, meaning that it could be measured in numbers of seconds and minutes. It was cybernetic, meaning it was about the relationship between a person and a machine. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 156

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pins down the precise diagnostic features of the industrial attention construct — visual, durational, cybernetic — against which the human alternative is defined.