Behavioral entropy as an index of workload

Proceedings of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Association, 'Ergonomics for the New Millennium'

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 125-128

  Boer, Erwin R ^a  

^a Nissan USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ERGONOMICS; ERROR CORRECTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

BEHAVIORAL ENTROPY; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (CDS); HUMAN OPERATORS (HO); WORK LOAD INDEX (WLI);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 1842635472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/154193120004401702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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