Performance in a Complex Multiple-Task Environment during a Laboratory-Based Simulation of Occasional Night Work

Human Factors

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 657-669

  Sauer, Jürgen ^a   Wastell, David G ^b,e   Hockey, G Robert J ^c   Earle, Fiona ^d  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

COMPLEX TASK ENVIRONMENTS; NIGHTTIME OPERATIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MONITORING; NIGHT WORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATOR; PROCESS CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MALE; MENTAL FATIGUE; REACTION TIME; SPACE SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 1442348479     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/hfes.45.4.657.27090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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