Psychophysiological Assessment of Pilot Workload in an Applied Setting

Abstract

One of the greatest problems facing researchers, design teams, and practitioners of engineering psychology is to determine that the product of their labors, whether a new type of computer interface or a new concept cockpit in a next generation aircraft, places demands upon the operator that are consistent with the known limits of human performance capacities. It is one thing to have a machine that performs a task with great efficiency. It is quite another to place a human operator at the controls of this machine and obtain ideal performance efficiency levels. Engineers are most concerned that the machine they have constructed is functionally capable of performing the operations it was designed for and sustaining its function within some specified lifetime. The machine's functional parameters are easily tested and relatively well understood. (sdw)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA222707

Entities

People

  • John S. Bell

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control
  • Frequency Bands
  • Health Services
  • Heart Rate
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Measurement
  • Nervous System
  • Peripheral Nervous System
  • Psychology
  • Psychophysiology
  • Sympathetic Nervous System
  • Task Performance And Analysis

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Systems Analysis and Design