Investigating the appropriateness of the tacom measure - application to the complexity of proceduralized tasks for high speed train drivers

Nuclear Engineering and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 115-124

  Park, Jinkyun ^a   Jung, Wondea ^a   Jonghyun, K O ^b  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Proceduralized task; Process control; Subjective workload; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949408058     PISSN: 17385733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5516/NET.2010.42.1.115     Document Type: Article

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