PERFORMANCE, RECOVERY AND MAN-MACHINE EFFECTIVENESS

The project is concerned with the assessment of human performance and recovery capabilities under relatively long duration conditions (two hours or more). Varying work/rest schedules and environments are among the variables manipulated, and the results relate to the doctrine of continuous operations. During this reporting period, a report was prepared describing the results of a study of 8 and 16 hours of continuous work; experiments were continued to ascertain the affects of methyl scoppolmine on (animal) response decrements; a report was begun on the relation between circadian rhythms and performance on a physical loading task; and research continued on heat stress limits for sedentary operations. Three papers were presented at meetings, three published, three accepted for publication, and four were submitted. This progress report contains a list of 27 topics of potential military relevance derived from the studies conducted from 1968 to the present. (Author)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Semi-annual Progress Report. See also report dated 15 September 1972, MRIS 10-314949.
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Tech University, Lubbock

  Center for Biotechnology and Human Performance
  Lubbock, TX  United States  79409
• Authors:
  • Dudek, R A
• Publication Date: 1973-3-15

Media Info

• Pagination: 22 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Biological activity; Circadian rhythms; Fatigue (Physiological condition); Human machine systems; Personnel performance; Stress (Psychology); Tolerance (Physiology)
• Old TRIS Terms: Human performance; Man machine communications; Rhythms (Biological); Tolerance (Physiological)
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Environment; Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00314950
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Contract Numbers: DAAD05-69-C-0102
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 27 1980 12:00AM