Using variable-rate alerting to counter boredom in human supervisory control

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1441-1445

  Mkrtchyan, Armen A ^a   MacBeth, Jamie C ^a   Solovey, Erin T ^a   Ryan, Jason C ^a   Cummings, M L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION SWITCHING; HUMAN SUPERVISORY CONTROL; LONG DURATION; OPERATOR PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; VARIABLE RATE;

ERGONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

EQUIPMENT TESTING;

EID: 84873465120     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/1071181312561406     Document Type: Conference Paper

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