Using Variable-Rate Alerting to Counter Boredom in Human Supervisory Control

A low task load, long duration experiment was conducted to evaluate the impact of cyclical attention switching strategies on operator performance in supervisory domains. The impetus for such a study stems from the lack of prior work to improve human-system performance in low task load supervisory do...

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Main Authors: Cummings, M. L. (Contributor), Mkrtchyan, Armen Ashot (Contributor), Macbeth, Jamie C. (Contributor), Solovey, Erin S. (Contributor), Ryan, Jason Christopher (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Humans and Automation Lab (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2013-10-25T17:04:13Z.
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