What's skill got to do with it? Vehicle automation and driver mental workload

Ergonomics

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1324-1339

  Young, M S ^a   Stanton, N A ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Automaticity; Automation; Driving; Mental workload; Resources

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; DRIVER TRAINING; ERGONOMICS; VEHICLES;

AUTOMATICITY; DRIVER MENTAL WORKLOAD; DRIVER SKILL; DRIVING SIMULATOR; VEHICLE AUTOMATION;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DRIVER; DRIVER LICENCE; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AUTOMATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 34250652872     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130701318855     Document Type: Article

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