How many resources and how to identify them? Commentary on Boles et al. and Vidulich and Tsang

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-56

  Wickens, Christopher D ^a,b  

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

^b Alion Science Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; NOTE; PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; THEORY; VALIDATION STUDY;

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

EID: 33846597064     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007779598019     Document Type: Note

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