Peripheral arterial tone as an on-line measure of load in a simulated flight task

Ergonomics

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1026-1035

  Iani, C ^a   Gopher, D ^b   Grunwald, A J ^b   Lavie, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Continuous load; Discrete load; Peripheral arterial tone; Simulated flight

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; MAN POWERED AIRCRAFT;

AIRPLANE CONTROL; FLIGHT TASK; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL TONE; SIMULATED FLIGHT;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; AIRPLANE CREW; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE ANALYSIS; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RADIAL ARTERY; VASOCONSTRICTION; WEIGHT-BEARING; WORKLOAD;

EID: 34249735872     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130701303386     Document Type: Article

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