The impact of workload on heart rate and blood pressure in en-route and tower air traffic control

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 297-314

  Vogt, Joachim ^a   Hagemann, Tim ^b   Kastner, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air traffic controller; Blood pressure; Combined lab. and field studies; Heart rate; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; AVIATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

EID: 33750981257     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803.20.4.297     Document Type: Article

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