Spatial representations of virtual mazes: the role of visual fidelity and individual differences.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The current study investigated performance on a dual auditory task during a simulated night shift. BACKGROUND:Night shifts and sleep deprivation negatively affect performance on vigilance-based tasks, but less is known about the effects on complex tasks. Because language processing is necessary for successfu...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Pilcher JJ,Jennings KS,Phillips GE,McCubbin JA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This research aimed to identify the most frequently occurring human factors contributing to maintenance-related failures within a petroleum industry organization. Commonality between failures will assist in understanding reliability in maintenance processes, thereby preventing accidents in high-hazard domains...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Antonovsky A,Pollock C,Straker L

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose was to add to the body of knowledge regarding the impact of interruption on acute care nurses' cognitive workload, total task completion times, nurse frustration, and medication administration error while programming a patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pump. BACKGROUND:Data support that the seve...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Campoe KR,Giuliano KK

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leibowitz and his colleagues found that accommodation rests at an intermediate distance that shows wide interindividual variation. They proposed that this intermediate dark focus is useful for correcting anomalous refractive errors, but this proposal was later questioned when different measurement techniques yielded d...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Andre JT,Owens DA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to examine individual markers of resilience and obtain quantitative insights into the understanding and the implications of variation and expertise levels in train traffic operators' goals and strategic mental models and their impact on performance. BACKGROUND:The Dutch railways are...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Lo JC,Pluyter KR,Meijer SA

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In manual material handling tasks, the handle serves as the interface between the human operator and the box (the materials). Handle angle design can affect both wrist posture and lifting ability. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of handle angle on maximal acceptable weight of lifting (MAWL), perceived w...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Wang MJ,Chung HC,Chen HC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skilled performers in complex environments rely heavily on heuristic strategies to cope with the time pressure and complexity of dynamic tasks. We suggest that the use of task simplification strategies based largely on perception and pattern recognition is fundamental to the novice-expert shift in dynamic decision mak...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Kirlik A,Walker N,Fisk AD,Nagel K

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We show that psychophysiologically driven real-time adaptive aiding significantly enhances performance in a complex aviation task. A further goal was to assess the importance of individual operator capabilities when providing adaptive aiding. BACKGROUND:Psychophysiological measures are useful for monitoring ...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Wilson GF,Russell CA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual recognition functions, such as acuity and contrast sensitivity, deteriorate rapidly over the declining luminances found during civil twilight. Thus civil twilight, a critical part of the transition between daylight and darkness, represents lighting conditions that may be useful to describe artificial illuminati...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Andre J,Owens DA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study investigated the effects of drivers' age and low light on speed, lane keeping, and visual recognition of typical roadway stimuli. BACKGROUND:Poor visibility, which is exacerbated by age-related changes in vision, is a leading contributor to fatal nighttime crashes. There is little evidence, howeve...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Owens DA,Wood JM,Owens JM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to improve decision making must appeal to some source of warrant - that is, specific criteria or models for guiding and evaluating decision-making performance. We examine and compare the warrants for two approaches to decision aids, decision training, and consulting: analytically based prescription, which obta...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Lipshitz R,Cohen MS

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The present study examined the effects of age (20s to 70s), gender (male and female), and hand (dominant and nondominant) on force control capabilities (FCCs) in four force control phases (initiation, development, maintenance, and termination). BACKGROUND:Normative data of FCCs by force control phase are nee...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Lee B,Lee M,Yoh MS,You H,Park H,Jung K,Lee BH,Na DL,Kim GH

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central feature of the impairment in performance produced by inert gas narcosis, which poses a threat to divers breathing compressed air, is a slowing of reaction time (RT). To investigate the locus of this slowing, the effects of 35% nitrous oxide on Crossman's confusion function were determined using line-length a...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Fowler B,Mitchell I,Bhatia M,Porlier G

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to quantify the impact of olfactory stimulation and takeover modality on the performance of takeovers in conditionally automated driving. BACKGROUND:Takeover requests are important for the safety of automated vehicles. The reaction time and subsequent performance of drivers in the takeover pr...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Tang Q,Guo G,Zhang Z,Zhang B,Wu Y

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study was designed to examine whether increasing foveal task complexity would cause the functional field to shrink as a result of a visual funneling effect. Using 8 male participants, the study examined whether the effects of foveal task complexity on peripheral performance was most pronounced at the far p...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Murata A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to investigate the impacts of feature selection on driver cognitive distraction (CD) detection and validation in real-world nonautomated and Level 2 automated driving scenarios. BACKGROUND:Real-time driver state monitoring is critical to promote road user safety. METHOD:Twenty-four particip...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Yang S,Wilson KM,Roady T,Kuo J,Lenné MG

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We describe a networked, two-user virtual reality (VR) power wheelchair (PWC) simulator system in which an actor (client) and an observer (clinician) meet. We then present a study with 15 observers (expert clinicians) evaluating the effect of three principal forms of viewpoint control (egocentric-egomotion, e...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Alshaer A,O'Hare D,Archambault P,Shirley M,Regenbrecht H

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We studied the utility of occlusion distance as a function of task-relevant event density in realistic traffic scenarios with self-controlled speed. BACKGROUND:The visual occlusion technique is an established method for assessing visual demands of driving. However, occlusion time is not a highly informative ...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Kujala T,Mäkelä J,Kotilainen I,Tokkonen T

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most commercial footwear is designed and manufactured on a curved last, although the amount of curvature of the last and the turning point of the last centerline have not been formally determined. In this study, we used principal component analysis to determine the foot axis so that lasts that match feet can be produc...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Goonetilleke RS,Luximon A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strayer et al. in this volume show that increases in cognitive workload caused by drivers' involvement in distracting activities that allow them to keep their eyes on the road lead to decrements in indices of safe driving performance. Although there is agreement that in-vehicle tasks that require drivers to take their...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Fisher DL

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study contributes to human reliability analysis (HRA) by proposing a method that focuses more on human error causality within a sociotechnical system, illustrating its rationality and feasibility by using a case of the Minuteman (MM) III missile accident. BACKGROUND:Due to the complexity and dynamics wit...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Rong H,Tian J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to identify the cognitive components required for offshore drillers to develop and maintain situation awareness (SA) while controlling subsea hydrocarbon wells. BACKGROUND:SA issues are often identified as contributing factors to drilling incidents, most recently in the Deepwater Ho...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Roberts R,Flin R,Cleland J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examines how people make movements with pointing devices during human-computer interaction. It specifically concerns the perceptual-motor processes that mediate the speed and accuracy of cursor positioning with electromechanical mice. In three experiments we investigated the spatial and temporal characte...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Walker N,Meyer DE,Smelcer JB

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Research on learning from feedback has produced ambiguous guidelines for feedback design--some have advocated minimal feedback, whereas others have recommended more extensive feedback that highly supported performance. The objective of the current study was to investigate how individual differences in cogniti...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Kelley CM,McLaughlin AC

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We assess the driving distraction potential of texting with Google Glass (Glass), a mobile wearable platform capable of receiving and sending short-message-service and other messaging formats. BACKGROUND:A known roadway danger, texting while driving has been targeted by legislation and widely banned. Support...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Sawyer BD,Finomore VS,Calvo AA,Hancock PA

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The effects of handle friction and torque direction on muscle activity and torque are empirically investigated using cylindrical handles. BACKGROUND:A torque biomechanical model that considers contact force, friction, and torque direction was evaluated using different friction handles. METHODS:Twelve adults...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Seo NJ,Armstrong TJ,Chaffin DB,Ashton-Miller JA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction time, eye movements, and errors were measured during visual search of Web pages to determine age-related differences in performance as a function of link size, link number, link location, and clutter. Participants (15 young adults, M = 23 years; 14 older adults, M = 57 years) searched Web pages for target lin...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Grahame M,Laberge J,Scialfa CT

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article provides a review of areas that present significant challenges in infection prevention and control and describes human factors engineering (HFE) approaches that have been applied successfully to these areas. In addition, implications and recommendations for HFE use in future research are discusse...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Drews FA,Visnovsky LC,Mayer J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined preferences for different forms of causal explanations for indeterminate situations. Background: Klein and Hoffman distinguished several forms of causal explanations for indeterminate, complex situations: single-cause explanations, lists of causes, and explanations that interrelate several causes....

journal_title：Human factors

authors： Klein G,Rasmussen L,Lin MH,Hoffman RR,Case J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An experiment studied the frequency and correlates of driver mind wandering. BACKGROUND:Driver mind wandering is associated with risk for crash involvement. The present experiment examined the performance and attentional changes by which this effect might occur. METHOD:Participants performed a car-following...

journal_title：Human factors

authors： He J,Becic E,Lee YC,McCarley JS

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00