How practice produces suboptimal heuristics that render backup instruments ineffective

Ergonomics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 441-475

  Youmans, Robert J ^a   Ohlsson, Stellan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Backup instruments; Heuristics; Instrument failure; Task set switching

Indexed keywords

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FEEDBACK; INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMIZATION;

BACKUP INSTRUMENT; INSTRUMENT FAILURE; MALFUNCTION; TASK-SET SWITCHING;

MACHINERY;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MACHINE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL; SIMULATION; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 41349086686     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130701685659     Document Type: Article

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