NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) · 1979 · 106 citations · 0 references
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EngineeringAerospace EngineeringBehavioral SciencesErgonomicsFlight MechanicsPsychophysiologyCognitive LoadCognitive WorkloadFlight SimulationHuman ErrorHuman ReliabilityWorkload AnalysisAviation WorkloadCrew Performance AnalysisFlightHeart RateOperator Cognitive WorkloadVigilanceVigilance BehaviorWorkload
A full mission simulation of a civil air transport scenario that had two levels of workload was used to observe the actions of the crews and the basic aircraft parameters and to record heart rates. The results showed that the number of errors was very variable among crews but the mean increased in the higher workload case. The increase in errors was not related to rise in heart rate but was associated with vigilance times as well as the days since the last flight. The recorded data also made it possible to investigate decision time and decision order. These also varied among crews and seemed related to the ability of captains to manage the resources available to them on the flight deck.