Title :
Evaluation of Mental Workload for Ship Handling Using Physiological Indices
Author :
Murai, Koji ; Hayashi, Yuji
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Maritime Sci., Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
biochemistry; biomedical measurement; biothermics; cardiology; occupational health; physiology; ships; R-R interval; heart rate variability; mental workload evaluation; nasal temperature; physiological indices; salivary amylase activity; ship handling; Bridges; Engines; Heart rate variability; Human factors; Human resource management; Marine vehicles; Navigation; Teamwork; Temperature; Watches;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology (ICETET), 2009 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nagpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5250-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3884-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICETET.2009.91
