Cardiac-Activity Measures for Assessing Airport Ramp-Tower Controller’s Workload

Heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) potentially offer objective, continuous, and non-intrusive measures of human-operator’s mental workload. Such measurement capability is attractive for workload assessment in complex laboratory simulations or safety-critical field testing. The present study compares mean HR and HRV data with self-reported subjective workload ratings collected during a high-fidelity human-in-the-loop simulation of airport ramp traffic control operations, which involve complex cognitive and coordination tasks. Mean HR was found to be weakly sensitive to the workload ratings, while HRV was not sensitive or even contradictory to the assumptions. Until more knowledge on stress response mechanisms of the autonomic nervous system is obtained, it is recommended that these cardiac-activity measures be used with other workload assessment tools, such as subjective measures.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931213601016
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2016 Not subject to U.S. copyright restrictions.
• Authors:
  • Hayashi, Miwa
  • Dulchinos, Victoria L
• Publication Date: 2016-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 71-75
• Serial:
  • Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
  • Volume: 60
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 2169-5067
  • EISSN: 1071-1813
  • Serial URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pro

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic controllers; Heart rate; Nervous system; Simulation; Workload
• Uncontrolled Terms: Human in the loop simulation
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01710670
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 10 2019 3:17PM