Effects of moderate heat stress on driver vigilance in a moving vehicle

Ergonomics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-75

  Wyon, David P ^a,d   Wyon, Inger ^b   Norin, Fredrik ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b Quantus Research and Development   (Sweden)

^c VOLVO CAR CORPORATION   (Sweden)

^d JOHNSON CONTROLS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Driving skills; Heat stress; Route finding; Temperature; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY; ATTENTION; CAR DRIVING; HEAT; HEAT EXHAUSTION; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FEMALE; HEAT; HEAT EXHAUSTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0029682215     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139608964434     Document Type: Article

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