The role of alarm signal duration as a cue for alarm validity

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 191-199

  Bliss, James P ^a   Fallon, Corey K ^a   Nica, Nicolae ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm; Alert; Duration; False; Heuristic; Reaction; Trust; Warning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DECISION MAKING; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALARM MISTRUST; ALARM SIGNAL DURATION; DEGRADING EFFECTS;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

ADULT; ALARM MONITOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33750525525     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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