Inflight workload assessment: Comparison of subjective and physiological measurements

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1078-1084

  Lee, Yung Hui ^b   Liu, Bor Shong ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Heart rate; NASA Task Load Index (TLX) scale; Pilot workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; AVIATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FLIGHT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RATING SCALE; REST; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATOR; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0141456020     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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