Attentional-resource effectiveness measures in monitoring and detection tasks in nuclear power plants

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 993-1008

  Ha, Jun Su ^a   Seong, Poong Hyun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; information searching; nuclear power plant (NPP); selective attention; situation awareness (SA); visual sampling

Indexed keywords

EYE-TRACKING; INFORMATION SEARCHING; NUCLEAR POWER; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SITUATION AWARENESS; VISUAL SAMPLING;

DECISION THEORY; EXPERIMENTS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

MONITORING;

EID: 77955851765     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2044999     Document Type: Article

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