The reduction of uncertainty and troubleshooting performance

Human Factors

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 254-267

  Teague, Ross C ^a,b   Allen, John A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REPAIR;

HUMAN TROUBLESHOOTING PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM INTERMITTENCY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031171561     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872097778543912     Document Type: Article

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