Multiple resources and mental workload

Human Factors

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 449-455

  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

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES; BRAIN STRUCTURES; DESIGN CHANGES; DESIGN TOOLS; DRIVING SIMULATION; FOUR DIMENSIONS; FUTURE CHALLENGES; HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS (HFE); LAY OUT; MENTAL WORKLOAD (MWL); MODEL PREDICTIONS; MULTIPLE RESOURCES; RESOURCE MODELING; WORKLOAD PREDICTION;

CORRELATION METHODS; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

FORECASTING;

BRAIN FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; MULTITASKING; REVIEW; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 47749099661     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872008X288394     Document Type: Review

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