The effect of idle time thresholds on computer use time estimations by electronic monitoring

Ergonomics

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 872-881

  Yeh, Jao Yu ^a   Liang, Hui Wen ^a,b   Hwang, Yaw Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer mouse; Computer work; Electronic activity monitoring; Keyboard; Video record observation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MOUSE; COMPUTER WORK; ELECTRONIC ACTIVITY MONITORING; KEYBOARD; VIDEO RECORD OBSERVATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ESTIMATION; PATIENT MONITORING;

COMPUTERS;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REFERENCE VALUE; SELF REPORT; TIME; VIDEORECORDING; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER TERMINALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VIDEO RECORDING; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68349131482     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130802641577     Document Type: Article

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