Evaluation of Mental Workload for Ship Handling Using Physiological Indices

This paper describes the evaluation of mental workload of specialists for ship handling. We evaluate the specialists' performance using a real ship. We show the effect of physiological indices from the specialists' performance and the characteristics of their mental workload with heart rate (heart rate variability: R-R interval), nasal temperature and salivary amylase activity. In this paper, we confirm whether the response to their performance for the ship handling is clear or not.

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