Predicting dual-task performance with the Multiple Resources Questionnaire (MRQ)

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-45

  Boles, David B ^a   Bursk, Jonathan H ^b   Phillips, Jeffrey B ^a   Perdelwitz, Jason R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DUAL TASK PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE RESOURCES QUESTIONNAIRE (MRQ); SUBJECTIVE WORKLOAD ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE (SWAT);

JOB ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY; MULTIPLE RESOURCES QUESTIONNAIRE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDITY; WORKLOAD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33846568918     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007779598073     Document Type: Article

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