13. Stress and Workload
Figure 13.1 A representation of stress effects
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS
Motion Thermal Stress Air Quality High-frequency Vibration Low-Frequency Vibration and Motion Sickness Thermal Stress Air Quality
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESSORS
Cognitive Appraisal Ethical Issues
Level of Arousal Figure 13.2 The Yerkes-Dodson law showing the relationship between level of arousal (induced by stress) and performance. The OLA is shown to be higher for less complex tasks.
Performance Changes with Overarousal Remediation of Psychological Stress
LIFE STRESS
WORKLOAD OVERLOAD
Workload The timeline model Figure 13.3 Timeline analysis. The percentage of workload at each point is computed as the average number of tasks per unit time, within each window. Shown at the bottom of the figure is the computed workload value TR/TA.
Mental Workload Measurement Primary task measures Secondary task methods Physiological measures Subjective measures Workload dissociations
FATIGUE AND SLEEP DISRUPTION
Vigilance and Underarousal Causes of the vigilance decrement Time Event salience Signal rate Arousal level Vigilance Remediations
Sleep Disruption Sleep Deprivation and Performance Effects Circadian Rhythms
Figure 13.5 Graph plotting mean sleep latency (top), circadian rhythms (body temperature), and sleep duration (Bottom) against time for two day-night cycles. The bars around sleep duration represent the variability.
Figure 13.6 Graph showing how performance on four kinds of tasks varies as a function of circadian rhythms, shown for a one day cycle.
Remediation to Sleep Disruption Circadian Disruption Jet lag Shift work Remediation to Sleep Disruption