ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B

›› 1988, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (03): 55-60.

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COMPARISON OF SENSITIVITY OF SEVERAL SECONDARY TASKS IN WORKLOAD MEASUREMENT

Wang Hui-li;Guo Su-mei;Zhao Hui-ling Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing   

  • Published:1988-09-25 Online:1988-09-25

Abstract: This is an experiment on workload measurement of human operators.Its purpose is to determine which secondary task is more sensitive in work-load measurement. Our experiment treats tracking performance as theprimary task and mental arithmetic, recall of random digit and associationas the secondary tasks. The change in the operation of the secondarytasks is used as a measurement of different difficulty levels in the primarytask. The results show that mental arithmetic is most sensitive.

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