Mental Workload

Mental Workload

• DEFINITION: The feeling of mental effort or the level of use of the human operators limited resources.
  • As task demand increases, resources left in reserve decreases.
  • When attentional resources are exceeded, further increases in task demand will reduce performance.
  • New airplanes and military systems are analyzed in terms of mental workload.

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