Cognitive diversity and team performance in a complex multiple task environment

Ergonomics

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 934-954

  Sauer, Jürgen ^a   Felsing, Tobias ^b   Franke, Holger ^b   Rüttinger, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict; Team diversity; Team heterogeneity; Team performance; Training

Indexed keywords

MULTITASKING; PERSONNEL TESTING; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROCESS CONTROL;

CABIN AIR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DIVERSITY; TEAM HETEROGENEITY; TEAM PRFORMANCE;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGINEERING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACHINE; MALE; MICROCLIMATE; MICROCOMPUTER; OPERATOR; SAMPLING; SPACE FLIGHT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK; TRAINING;

ADULT; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745553580     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130600577502     Document Type: Article

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