Linking team composition to team performance: An application to postdisaster debris removal operations

IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 315-325

  Mendonça, David ^a   Brooks, James D ^a   Grabowski, Martha ^a,b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LE MOYNE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Human factors; man machine systems; system performance; teamwork

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

DATA LOGGING SYSTEMS; DEBRIS REMOVAL; DISTRIBUTION OF EFFORTS; RETROSPECTIVE METHOD; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; TEAM COMPOSITION; TEAM PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK;

DEBRIS;

EID: 84901303696     PISSN: 21682291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/THMS.2014.2306198     Document Type: Article

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