Effect of physical and mental workload interactions on human attentional resources and performance
Year: 2012
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Many tasks in the real world require simultaneous processing of mental information alongside physical activity.Most of researchers have studied the impact of physical activities on simple cognitive tasks, but have neglected other important influences (such as different attentional resource pools, as well as gender).Therefore, this thesis proposes a new model that investigates the combined impact of physical and mental workload on different attentional resources (visual and auditory, verbal and spatial).This thesis presents three experimental studies that examined the effects of physical and mental workload interactions, as well as gender, on visual tasks performance and auditory tasks.This thesis uses different methods to evaluate the impacts of workload interactions on task performance: performance measure, physiological parameters and brain activity (Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) method) and subjective assessment tools.Finally, this thesis translates the experimental studies setting into a field study to validate the model.I wish to give huge appreciation to Dr. Mark Young (my PhD first supervisor
Author: Abdulrahman Basahel
Language: English
Subfield: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W210861122