Overlapping melodic alarms are almost indiscriminable

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 637-645

  Lacherez, Philippe ^a   Seah, Eunice Limin ^a   Sanderson, Penelope ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; ERGONOMICS;

AUDITORY STREAMING; CONCURRENT TASKS; MEDICAL ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; MEDICAL EQUIPMENT ALARMS; MELODIC ALARMS;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALARM MONITORING; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; QUEENSLAND; SOUND;

EID: 34547144675     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X215719     Document Type: Article

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