Mitigating the effects of monotony: The role of task complexity

Rail Human Factors Around the World: Impacts on and of People for Successful Rail Operations

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 774-782

  Dunn, Naomi ^a   Williamson, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Monotony; Performance; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY; COGNITIVE TASK; COMPLEX CONDITION; COMPLEX TASK; COMPUTER-BASED TASKS; DRIVING PERFORMANCE; MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS; MONOTONY; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE EFFECT; PERFORMANCE TESTS; RAIL INDUSTRY; REACTION-TIME TASK; REASONING TASKS; SKILL LEVELS; TASK COMPLEXITY; TASK ELEMENTS; TRAIN DRIVERS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

DRIVER TRAINING;

EID: 84866391671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. Baddeley, A. 1968, A 3 min reasoning test based on grammatical transformation, Psychonomic Science, 10, 341-342.
2. Davies, D.R., Shackleton, V.J., and Parasuraman, R. 1983, Monotony and boredom. In R. Hockey (ed.), Stress and Fatigue in Human Performance, (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, NewYork), 1-32.
3. Desmond, P.A., Hancock, P.A. and Monette, J.L. 1998, Fatigue and automationinduced impairments in simulated driving performance, Transportation Research Record, 1628, 8-14.
4. Edkins, G.D. and Pollock, C.M. 1997, The influence of sustained attention on railway accidents, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 29(4), 533-539.
5. Farmer, R. and Sundberg, N.D. 1986, Boredom proneness: The development and correlates of a new scale, Journal of Personality Assessment, 50(1), 4-17.
6. Hancock, P.A. and Verwey, W.B. 1997, Fatigue, workload and adaptive driver systems, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 29(4), 495-506.
7. Hart, S.G. and Staveland, L.E. 1988, Development of the NASA-TLX (Task Load Index): Results of empirical and theoretical research. In P.A. Hancock and N. Meshkati (eds.), Human Mental Workload, (Amsterdam, North Holland), 139-183.
8. McBain, W.N. 1970, Arousal, monotony, and accidents in line driving, Journal of Applied Psychology, 54(6), 509-519.
9. Michaels, R. and Meuter, R. 2006, Sustained attention and hypovigilance:The effect of environmental monotony on continuous task performance and implications for road safety. Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference. Gold Coast, QLD Australia.
10. O'Hanlon, J.F. 1981, Boredom: Practical consequences and a theory, Acta Psychologica, 49(1), 53-82.
11. Parasuraman, R. 2000, Designing automation for human use: Empirical studies and quantitative models, Ergonomics, 43(7), 931-951.
12. Straussberger, S., Schaefer, D. and Kallus, W. 2004, A psychophysiological investigation of the concept of monotony in ATC: Effects of traffic repetitiveness and traffic density. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT), University of Zilina, Slovakia, 199-208.
13. Thiffault, P. and Bergeron, J. 2003, Monotony of road environment and driver fatigue: A simulator study, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 35, 381-391.
14. Warm, J. 1984, Sustained Attention in Human Performance. (Wiley, Chichester).
15. Welford, A.T. 1965, Fatigue and monotony. In O.G. Edholm and A.L. Bacharach (eds.), The Physiology of Human Survival, (Academic Press, London), 431-463.
16. Wyatt, S., Fraser, J.A. and Stock, F.G.L. 1929, The effects of monotony in work: A preliminary inquiry. Industrial Fatigue Research Board, London, Report no. 56.
17. Young, M.S. and Stanton, N.A. 2002, Attention and automation: New perspectives on mental underload and performance, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 3(2), 178-194.