Testing Psychomotor Performance During Sustained Acceleration

Abstract

Recommendations, developed for the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine (SAM), concern a human psychomotor performance task which could be used to monitor, on a moment-to-moment basis, an operator's ability to perform satisfactorily during sustained acceleration stress. First, a survey was made of the literature on performance testing during G-stress, and/or on the relationship between physiologic and behavioral changes during acceleration. Next, an experimental program was planned and carried out, in which candidate tasks were evaluated under conditions of hypoxia and alcohol intoxication. Final recommendations were then made for: a running memory task to measure a decrement in cognitive skills; and an automated testing system, for installation on the SAM centrifuge, suitable not only for the recommended test but also for many other diversified tasks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0784936

Entities

People

  • Stanley C. Collyer

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Biological Sciences
  • Control Sticks
  • Control Systems
  • Eye
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Processing
  • Motor Skills
  • Nervous System
  • Performance Tests
  • Psychology
  • Psychomotor Performance
  • Psychophysiology
  • Reaction Time
  • Retina
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space