Development and evaluation of an ergonomic software package for predicting multiple-task human performance and mental workload in human-machine interface design and evaluation

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 323-333

  Wu, Changxu ^a   Liu, Yili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ergonomics; Human performance; Mental workload; Queueing network; Software package

Indexed keywords

BASIC (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DESIGN; ERGONOMICS; LINGUISTICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; PROGRAMMING THEORY; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; SPREADSHEETS; USER INTERFACES;

ANALYSIS TOOLS; COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES; DUAL TASKS; ERGONOMIC DESIGNS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE DESIGNS; ILLUSTRATIVE CASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL WORKLOAD; MODELING ERRORS; MODELING TOOLS; MULTIPLE TASKS; PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCES; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; QUEUEING NETWORK; SIMULATION LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE PACKAGE; SYSTEM DESIGNS; VISUAL BASICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 59049095344     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2008.06.013     Document Type: Article

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