Air-to-ground training missions: a psychophysiological workload analysis
- 1 September 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Ergonomics
- Vol. 36 (9), 1071-1087
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139308967979
Abstract
Psychophysiological measures are used to assess the workload of F4 Phantom aircraft pilots and weapon systems officers (WSOs) during air-to-ground training missions and during the performance of two levels of difficulty of a laboratory tracking task. The bombing range portion of the missions was associated with the highest pilot workload, while the WSO flying the aircraft was the highest workload segment for the WSOs. The pilots' data were found to have a wider range of values for the physiological measures than were found in the WSO data. The different levels of tracking task difficulty produced significant physiological effects but the range of values found for most of the flight segments were much greater. These data demonstrate that extrapolating laboratory data to the flight environment is risky at best. The various physiological measures were differentially sensitive to the different demands of the various flight segments.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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