When is less more? Attention and workload in auditory, visual, and redundant patient-monitoring conditions

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1395-1399

  Seagull, F Jacob ^a   Wickens, Christopher D ^a   Loeb, Robert G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUDITION; BANDWIDTH; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPLAY DEVICES; EYE MOVEMENTS; PATIENT MONITORING; VISION;

AUDITORY DISPLAYS; BREATHING PARAMETERS; VISUAL DISPLAYS;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 0442294452     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/154193120104501817     Document Type: Conference Paper

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