Cultural influences on the measurement of subjective mental workload

Ergonomics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 509-518

  Johnson, Addie ^a   Widyanti, Ari ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Mental workload; Subjective measures; Values

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS; CROSS-CULTURAL; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL INFLUENCES; CULTURAL VALUE; GLOBALISATION; HYBRID MEMORIES; MENTAL WORKLOAD; NORTH AMERICAN; SEARCH TASKS; SUBJECTIVE MEASURES; SUBJECTIVE RATING; SUBJECTIVE WORKLOAD; TASK DEMAND; VALUES; WORK ENVIRONMENTS; WORK PROCESS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 79959305112     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2011.570459     Document Type: Article

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