Toward establishing a link between psychomotor task complexity and human information processing

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 533-536

  Jacko, Julie A ^a   Ward, Kenneth G ^a  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Information processing; Psychomotor task; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; USER INTERFACES;

PSYCHOMOTOR TASK; TASK COMPLEXITY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030270289     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-8352(96)00192-1     Document Type: Article

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