Age and automation interact to influence performance of a simulated screening task

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 825-831

  Wiegmann, Douglas ^a   McCarley, Jason S ^a   Kramer, Arthur F ^a   Wickens, Christopher D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Aging; Automation; Decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; AVIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; SCREENING; SIMULATION; STIMULUS; X RAY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUTOMATION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SECURITY MEASURES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRAVEL;

EID: 33747152179     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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