Workload transition : implications for individual and team performance / Beverly Messick Huey and Christopher D. Wickens, editors ; Panel on Workload Transition, Committee on Human Factors, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huey, Beverly Messick.

Wickens, Christopher D.

National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Workload Transition.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Job stress.

Tank crews--Job stress.

Tank crews.

Emergency medical personnel--Job stress.

Emergency medical personnel.

Nuclear power plant operators--Job stress.

Nuclear power plant operators.

Fatigue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Workload transition is a potentially crucial problem in work situations wherein operators are faced with abrupt changes in task demands. People involved include military combat personnel, air-traffic controllers, medical personnel in emergency rooms, and long-distance drivers. They must be able to respond efficiently to sudden increases in workload imposed by a failure, crisis, or other, often unexpected, event. This book provides a systematic evaluation of workload transition. It focuses on a broad spectrum of activities ranging from team cooperation to the maintenance of this problem on a theoretical level and offers several practical solutions.

Contents:

""WORKLOAD TRANSITION""; ""Copyright""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""ANALOGOUS SYSTEMS""; ""WORKLOAD""; ""STRESS""; ""SLEEP DISRUPTION AND FATIGUE""; ""VIGILANCE""; ""GEOGRAPHIC ORIENTATION""; ""DECISION MAKING""; ""STRATEGIC TASK MANAGEMENT""; ""TEAM LEADERSHIP AND CREW COORDINATION""; ""TRAINING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSES""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RESEARCH""; ""Research Recommendations""; ""Application of Research Results""; ""1 Team Transitions""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""TEAM PERFORMANCE DURING TRANSITIONS""; ""CREW PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS""

""Planning and Preparation""""Routine Monitoring""; ""Maintenance""; ""Information Seeking""; ""Decision Making""; ""Control and Operation""; ""Communications""; ""WORKSTATION CHARACTERISTICS""; ""FRAMEWORK OF THE REPORT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Analogous Systems""; ""FEATURES OF SIMILARITY""; ""Time""; ""Structure of the Event""; ""Environment""; ""Personal Risk""; ""Organizational Structure""; ""Summary""; ""COMMERCIAL AIRLINES""; ""RAILROADS""; ""NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS""; ""MERCHANT AND MILITARY SHIPS""; ""NATURAL DISASTERS""; ""EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES""

""TRAUMA CENTERS AND EMERGENCY ROOMS""""CAUTIOUS GENERALIZATIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Workload Factors""; ""WORKLOAD CHARACTERISTICS""; ""Sources""; ""Consequences""; ""Measures""; ""Relationship Between Workload and Performance""; ""WORKLOAD DRIVERS: REVIEW OF RESEARCH""; ""Task Structure""; ""Performance Criteria and Strategies""; ""Task Schedule""; ""Rate of Presentation""; ""Complexity of Task Demands""; ""Variability of Task Demands""; ""Task Duration""; ""Task Requirements and Procedures""; ""Input Variables""; ""Information From Visual Displays""

""Information From the Visual Scene""""Information From Auditory Displays""; ""Information Processing Variables""; ""Level of Processing""; ""Processing Resources""; ""Memory Requirements""; ""Display-Control Compatibility""; ""Output Variables""; ""Control Design""; ""Control Gain and Display Gain""; ""Control Lag and Display Lag""; ""Order of Control""; ""Computer Aiding and Automation""; ""SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Stress""; ""STRESS IN THE WORK ENVIRONMENT""; ""STRESS AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE""; ""QUALITATIVE PATTERN OF STRESS EFFECTS""; ""Attentional Tunneling""

""Working Memory Loss""""Communications""; ""Long-Term Memory""; ""Strategic Shifts""; ""Decision Making""; ""Attention and Arousal""; ""Conclusion""; ""MEDIATING EFFECTS""; ""COPING WITH STRESS""; ""Design Solutions""; ""Strategies""; ""Training""; ""TEAM MODELS: IMPLICATIONS FOR STRESS MANAGEMENT""; ""SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 Sleep Disruption and Fatigue""; ""CIRCADIAN EFFECTS ON PROLONGED PERFORMANCE""; ""SLEEP DEPRIVATION""; ""Laboratory Studies""; ""Operational Settings""; ""SLEEP INERTIA""; ""IMPACT ON PERFORMANCE IN EXTENDED-DUTY OPERATIONS""; ""POTENTIAL COUNTERMEASURES""

""REFERENCES""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610196289

9781280196287

1280196289

9780309544221

030954422X

9780585022727

0585022720

OCLC:

923267129