Dealing with task interruptions in complex dynamic environments: Are two heads better than one?

Human Factors

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 70-83

  Tremblay, Sébastien ^a   Vachon, François ^a   Lafond, Daniel ^b   Kramer, Chelsea ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

^c CAE Professional Services   (Canada)

Author keywords

command and control; complex dynamic situations; microworld; shared workload; task interruption; teamwork

Indexed keywords

COMMAND AND CONTROL; COMPLEX DYNAMICS; MICROWORLD; SHARED WORKLOAD; TASK INTERRUPTION; TEAMWORK;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FIREFIGHTERS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SAFETY; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84856441483     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720811424896     Document Type: Article

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