Objective Methods for Developing Indices of Pilot Workload,

Abstract

This paper discusses the various types of objective methodologies that either have been or have the potential of being applied to the general problem of the measurement of pilot workload as it occurs on relatively short missions or mission phases. Selected studies that have dealt with the workload measurement problem or some similar problem are reviewed in relation to their applicability to securing answers to operational questions. The types of methods are classified as: laboratory, analytic and synthetic, simulator, and in-flight. The paper concludes with a general discussion of the relative merits and some of the cautions to be observed in attempting to apply these methods and in trying to interpret the results with a view toward generalizing to operational situations. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA044556

Entities

People

  • W. Dean Chiles

Organizations

  • Federal Aviation Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cargo Aircraft
  • Engineering
  • Flight Simulators
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Landing
  • Measurement
  • New York
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Training
  • Transport Aircraft
  • Workload

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design