Mental workload measurement for emergency operating procedures in digital nuclear power plants

Ergonomics

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1070-1085

  Gao, Qin ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Song, Fei ^b   Li, Zhizhong ^a   Dong, Xiaolu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute   (China)

Author keywords

blinks; HRV; mental workload; operation procedure; pupil dilation

Indexed keywords

BLINKS; HRV; MENTAL WORKLOAD; OPERATION PROCEDURE; PUPIL DILATION;

EXPERIMENTS; PHYSIOLOGY;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BLINKING; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUPIL; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BLINKING; EMERGENCIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PUPIL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880511658     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2013.790483     Document Type: Article

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