Modeling Mental Workload

Abstract

The primary objective of the research project was to investigate models for monitoring and predicting subjective workload in the control of complex systems. Such models would enable systems to use workload levels to distribute tasks optimally in addition to identifying levels of workload, which could lead to a serious breakdown in performance. In the aircraft-pilot system, for example, such capabilities could provide warnings to the pilot of high workload levels and could also assess ways of reducing the pilot's workload by offering to assume control of some ongoing tasks. In this initial project, we tried to determine how well a model can assess workload using information about task requirements and task performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA387779

Entities

People

  • Gary B. Reid
  • Rebecca L. Gomez
  • Roger W. Schvaneveldt
  • Sean Rice

Organizations

  • New Mexico State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Measurement
  • Neural Networks
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • Psychology
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.