Investigating mental workload across task modalities: a multimodal analysis using pupillometry.

Understanding mental workload is challenging due to its multidimensional nature and varying sensitivities of its primary measures: task performance, perceived workload, and physiological responses. This study investigates the effects of task load on performance, perceived workload, and pupil measures across different information modalities. A within-subjects experiment involving three tasks (digit span, matrix span, and dual n-back) was conducted with three task load levels.

Evaluating Technicians' Workload and Performance in Diagnosis for Corrective Maintenance.

The advancement in digital technology is transforming the world. It enables smart product-service systems that improve productivity by changing tasks, processes, and the ways we work. There are great opportunities in maintenance because many tasks require physical and cognitive work, but are still carried out manually.

Investigating effect of standardized total body skin examination using sequence-networks.

This study employs sequence-network analysis to investigate the influence of instructing a standardized procedure on total-body skin examination (TBSE) performance. A between-subjects study was conducted with thirty-one participants comprising medical students and attending physicians. Among these participants, fifteen were randomly assigned to the uninstructed group and sixteen to the instructed group.

Investigating the effects of age, task load, task complexity, and input device on monitoring performance for smart manufacturing in the oil refining industry.

Human beings play an important role in a smart manufacturing economy. In this study, we explored the effects of age, task load, task complexity, and input device on abnormal event detection performance in an oil refinery control room task. Thirty participants were recruited to complete a process plant monitoring task in which they were asked to continuously monitor the gauge states, and immediately detect and solve the abnormal events.

Using eye movements to evaluate the effectiveness of the situation awareness rating technique scale in measuring situation awareness for smart manufacturing.

Physiological indicators, including eye-tracking measures, may provide insight into human internal states in many domains, such as smart manufacturing. The Situation Awareness Rating Technique (SART) scale has been criticised for not assessing situation awareness (SA) accurately. In this study, we investigated the precision of the SART scale for assessing SA by comparing the scores to eye movement data.

Effects of Desk Pedaling Work Rate on Concurrent Work Performance among Physically Inactive Adults: A Randomized Experiment.

Purpose: Under-desk pedaling devices could help reduce health risks associated with the global decline in work-related energy expenditure. However, the optimal pedaling work rate to facilitate concurrent work performance among physically inactive adults is unclear. We examined the effects of two light-intensity pedaling work rates on physically inactive adults' work performance.

Validating an abnormal situation prediction model for smart manufacturing in the oil refining industry.

Human beings play an important role in a smart manufacturing economy. The repetitive and cognitive demanding task operations of smart manufacturing require the development of system models for measuring and predicting human performance, including oil refinery monitoring tasks. The main objective of this research was to validate the generalizability of a mathematical model for the prediction of refinery operators' detection of abnormal events.

Aiding decision makers to reopening of places of worship.

Objective: Our research objective is to work with leaders of houses of worship in the local community to assess options for the physically reopening of places of worship.

Method: This study consists of two parts. The first part consists of working with a leader of a house of worship to formulate a decision process based on the priorities of the organization and its physical size and population.

An evaluation of touchscreen versus keyboard/mouse interaction for large screen process control displays.

The objectives of this study were to test the effect of interaction device on performance in a process control task (managing a tank farm). The study compared the following two conditions: a) 4K-resolution 55" screen with a 21" touchscreen versus b) 4K-resolution 55″ screen with keyboard/mouse. The touchscreen acted both as an interaction device for data entry and navigation and as an additional source of information.

Investigating information-processing performance of different command team structures in the NATO Problem Space.

The structure of command teams is a significant factor on their communications and ability to process, and act upon, information. The NATO Problem Space was used in this study to represent three of the main dimensions in the battle-space environment: familiarity, rate of change, and strength of information position. Results show that the five common team structures (chain, Y, circle, wheel and all-connected) did not generally perform as predicted in team literature.

Using Signal Detection Theory and Time Window-based Human-In-The-Loop simulation as a tool for assessing the effectiveness of different qualitative shapes in continuous monitoring tasks.

This paper provides a case study of Signal Detection Theory (SDT) as applied to a continuous monitoring dual-task environment. Specifically, SDT was used to evaluate the independent contributions of sensitivity and bias to different qualitative gauges used in process control. To assess detection performance in monitoring the gauges, we developed a Time Window-based Human-In-The-Loop (TWHITL) simulation bed.

Analyses of team performance in a dynamic task environment.

Teamwork, a central component of team research, is not readily observable and must be inferred from the manner in which teams operate. Of particular interest is the measurement and evaluation of teamwork. The goal of this paper is to explore the assessment of team data using a temporal accuracy measure called the Relative Accuracy Index (RAI).