Impairments of manual tracking performance during spaceflight are associated with specific effects of microgravity or visuomotor transformations

Ergonomics

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 920-934

  Heuer, Herbert ^a   Manzey, Dietrich ^b   Lorenz, Bernd ^c   Sangals, Jörg ^d  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachen   (Germany)

^c Institut fur Flugfuhrung   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Manual tracking; Microgravity; Spaceflight; Visuo motor transformation

Indexed keywords

MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; SPACE FLIGHT; STIFFNESS;

MANUAL TRACKING;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CASE STUDY; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMONAUT; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LIMB; MASS; MICROGRAVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0037477773     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0014013031000107559     Document Type: Article

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