23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-P12

EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS OF THE CREW WORKLOAD

G. Surace (1), J. Barollo (2)
(1) Polytechnic of Turin, Italy; (2) Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A. – Systems and Simulation Laboratories, Italy

Keywords: workload, human information processing, human machine interface

A survey of the overall workload felt by aircrew flying modern glass-cockpit aircraft during short and medium range flight has been carried out using the NASA TLX (Task Load Index) methodology. A brief discussion of workload concept and workload methodologies assessment are given and survey conclusion has reported

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