Concurrent manual-decision tasks

Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 293-318

  Hoffmann, Errol R ^a   Lim, John T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concurrent tasks; Fitts' law; Hick's law

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PERSONNEL;

CONCURRENT MANUAL DECISION TASKS; FITT LAW; HICK LAW;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME;

EID: 0031104811     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401397188161     Document Type: Article

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