Human probability matching behaviour in response to alarms of varying reliability

Ergonomics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 2300-2312

  Bliss, James P ^a   Gilson, Richard D ^b   Deaton, John E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm; Attention; Habituation; Motor skills; Psychomotor performance

Indexed keywords

ALARM MONITORING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION SERVICE; OPERATOR; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0028808155     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139508925269     Document Type: Article

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