Fatigue and Performance Models: General Background and Commentary on the Circadian Alertness Simulator for Fatigue Risk Assessment in Transportation

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Dijk, Derk Jan ^a   Larkin, Willard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alertness models; Circadian; Human performance; Sleep

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CALCULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FATIGUE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATOR; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WORK SCHEDULE;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FATIGUE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 1442304812     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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