Incorporating human fatigue and recovery into the learning-forgetting process

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 12-13, 2013, Pages 7287-7299

  Jaber, M Y ^a   Givi, Z S ^a   Neumann, W P ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Forgetting; Learning; Production break; Recovery

Indexed keywords

FORGETTING; LEARNING; LEARNING AND FORGETTING; MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS; PRODUCTION OUTPUTS; PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTION PROCESS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

RECOVERY;

EID: 84878987737     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2013.02.028     Document Type: Article

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