Interactive effects of physical and mental workload on subjective workload assessment

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 977-983

  DiDomenico, Angela ^a   Nussbaum, Maury A ^b  

^a LIBERTY MUTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SAFETY   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Borg CR10 Scale; Dual task; NASA TLX

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS;

ASSESSMENT APPROACHES; ASSESSMENT TOOLS; ATTENTION; BORG CR10 SCALE; COMPLEX TASKS; DUAL TASK; INTERACTIVE EFFECTS; LIFTING; MEASURING; MENTAL ARITHMETICS; MENTAL TASKS; MENTAL WORKLOADS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL; PHYSICAL DEMANDS; PHYSICAL DOMAINS; SINGLE DOMAINS; WORKLOAD ASSESSMENTS;

NASA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 54949132964     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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