Crew Workload Assessment. Development of a Measure of Operator Workload.

Abstract

The study objective was to develop a quantitative measure of workload useful in crewstation evaluation. Flight tasks of varying difficulty were simulated, and 35 pilot response variables analyzed. Selected physiological and visual response variable were applied in a stepwise regression procedure to the prediction of a composite performance/opinion measure, which reflected differing levels of task difficulty. The resulting linear equation was reformulated as a preliminary operationally-defined measure of information-processing workload. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA068616

Entities

People

  • James D. Wolf

Organizations

  • Honeywell International, Inc.

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Amplitude
  • Control Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Electrocardiography
  • Experimental Design
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Regression Analysis
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Switches
  • Task Performance And Analysis

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.