A Model for Mental Workload in Tasks Requiring Continuous Information Processing

The object of this paper is to define and justify a model for mental workload that is appropriate to tasks in which a human operator is required to process sensory information in a continuous fashion. The primary application of this model has been to continuous manual tracking tasks, although certain non-tracking tasks are also candidates for application. The model appears to be most useful as a design and evaluation tool for predicting the relationship between performance and workload; measurements of workload using concepts suggested by the model can be obtained only under highly constrained situations.

[1]  H. R. Jex,et al.  A ``Critical'' Tracking Task for Manual Control Research , 1966 .

[2]  F. C. Volkmann,et al.  Time course of visual inhibition during voluntary saccades. , 1968, Journal of the Optical Society of America.

[3]  David L. Kleinman,et al.  A Model for Human Controller Remnant , 1969 .

[4]  W. H. Levison.  A model for task interference , 1969 .

[5]  David L. Kleinman,et al.  The Human as an Optimal Controller and Information Processor , 1969 .

[6]  Henry R. Jex,et al.  Corroborative Data on Normalization of Human Operator Remnant , 1969 .

[7]  David L. Kleinman,et al.  An optimal control model of human response part I: Theory and validation , 1970 .

[8]  D. Kleinman,et al.  An optimal control model of human response part II: Prediction of human performance in a complex task , 1970 .

[9]  David L. Kleinman,et al.  A control theoretic approach to manned-vehicle systems analysis , 1971 .

[10]  David L. Kleinman,et al.  Analytic Evaluation of Display Requirements for Approach to Landing (CR-1952): NASA (November , 1971 .

[11]  W. H. Levison,et al.  Studies of multivariable manual control systems - A model for task interference , 1971 .

[12]  W. H. Levison,et al.  A control theory model for human decision making , 1972 .

[13]  W. H. Levison,et al.  A manual control theory analysis of vertical situation displays for STOL aircraft , 1973 .

[14]  D. L. Kleinman,et al.  A predictive pilot model for STOL aircraft landing , 1974 .

[15]  David L. Kleinman,et al.  Display/control requirements for VTOL aircraft , 1975 .

[16]  William H. Levison,et al.  An Optimal Control Methodology for Analyzing the Effects of Display Parameters on Performance and Workload in Manual Flight Control , 1975, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

[17]  P. H. Wewerinke.  A theoretical study of the pilot as a system monitor , 1975 .