Performance on a simple response time task: Is sleep or work more important for miners?

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 210-213

  Ferguson, Sally A ^a   Paech, Gemma M ^a   Dorrian, Jillian ^a   Roach, Gregory D ^a   Jay, Sarah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mining; Psychomotor vigilance task; Shiftwork; Sleep; Work hours

Indexed keywords

MINING; TESTING;

ACTIVITY MONITORS; LINEAR MIXED MODELS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; PSYCHOMOTOR VIGILANCE TASK; PSYCHOMOTOR VIGILANCE TESTS; SHIFTWORK; SLEEP; WORK HOURS;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MINER; MINING; NIGHT WORK; PALM BASED PSYCHOMOTOR VIGILANCE TEST; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE TIME; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORK; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 78349304291     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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