Effects of task difficulty on pilot workload

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 487-490

  Watson, Alexandria R ^a   Ntuen, Celestine ^a   Park, Eui ^a  

^a N Carolina Agric/Tech Stt Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Damping; Task difficulty; Workload

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; AVIATORS; JOB ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE;

TASK DIFFICULTY; TRACKING TASKS; WORKLOAD;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 0030270851     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-8352(96)00181-7     Document Type: Article

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