Butler, Philip C Bowers, Andy Smith, Andrew P Cohen-Hatton, Sabrina R Honey, Robert C
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Human factors
To understand how firefighters' use of rules (i.e., standard operating procedures [SOPs]) and deliberative decision making (i.e., operational discretion [OD]) interacts with acute stress. Current operational guidance for UK firefighters combines the provision of SOPs, for routine incidents, with the use of OD, under prescribed conditions (e.g., whe...
Buchman-Pearle, Jessa M Fewster, Kayla M Pinto, Brendan L Callaghan, Jack P
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Human factors
To explore how individual characteristics influence selected lumbar support prominence (LSP), seated lumbar flexion, seatback average pressure, contact area, and center of pressure (CoP) location before and after 1 hr of driving. An LSP can alter posture and may reduce low back pain during prolonged driving. Although LSP preference varies across in...
McDonnell, Amy S Simmons, Trent G Erickson, Gus G Lohani, Monika Cooper, Joel M Strayer, David L
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Human factors
This research explores the effect of partial vehicle automation on neural indices of mental workload and visual engagement during on-road driving. There is concern that the introduction of automated technology in vehicles may lead to low driver stimulation and subsequent disengagement from the driving environment. Simulator-based studies have exami...
Hendricks, Joseph W Peres, S Camille Dumlao, Stefan V Armstrong, Cara A Neville, Timothy J
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Human factors
The objective of these studies was to identify hazard statement (HS) design elements in procedures that affected whether both workers and lab participants performed the associated hazard mitigation. Many of the incidents in high-risk industries are the result of issues with procedures (e.g., standard operating procedures; SOPs) workers use to suppo...
Dori, Dov Jbara, Ahmad Yang, Yongkai E Liu, Andrew M Oman, Charles M
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Human factors
We define and demonstrate the use of OPM-TA-a model-based task analysis (TA) framework that uses object-process methodology (OPM) ISO 19450 as a viable alternative to traditional TA techniques. A variety of different TA methods exist in human factors engineering, and several of them are often applied successively for a broad task representation, ma...
Holden, Kritina Greene, Maya Vincent, E Sándor, Anikó Thompson, Shelby Feiveson, Alan Munson, Brandin
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Human factors
Assess the effects of long-duration microgravity and gravitational transitions on fine motor skills using a tablet-based test battery of four fine motor tasks: Pointing, Dragging, Shape Tracing, and Pinch-Rotate. While there have been some studies on fine motor skills in microgravity, few have measured the fine motor skills that are core components...
Weiss, Hannah Liu, Andrew Byon, Amos Blossom, Jonathan Stirling, Leia
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Human factors
To investigate the impact of interface display modalities and human-in-the-loop presence on the awareness, workload, performance, and user strategies of humans interacting with teleoperated robotic systems while conducting inspection tasks onboard spacecraft. Due to recent advancements in robotic technology, free-flying teleoperated robot inspector...
Dalecki, Marc Steinberg, Fabian Beurskens, Rainer
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Human factors
Investigating dual-task (DT) performance during simulated weightlessness by water submersion, using a manual tracking and a choice reaction task. In contrast to previous work, we focus on performance changes over time. Previous research showed motor tracking and choice reaction impairments under DT and single-task (ST) conditions in shallow water s...
Anderson, Allison Stankovic, Aleksandra Cowan, Devin Fellows, Abigail Buckey, Jay Jr
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Human factors
Isolated, confined, extreme (ICE) environments are accompanied by a host of stress-inducing circumstances: operational pressure, interpersonal dynamics, limited communication with friends and family, and environmental hazards. We evaluated the effectiveness of attention-restoration-therapy-based immersive Virtual Reality (VR) in three ICE environme...
Möller, Fabian Hoffmann, Uwe Vogt, Tobias Steinberg, Fabian
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Human factors
Investigation of cognitive performance during extravehicular activities (EVAs) in a space-analog setting. EVAs performed by humans in microgravity on the International Space Station (ISS) call for high cognitive performance during upper-body workload. Higher cardiovascular demands interact with cognitive performance, but no knowledge exists about E...
