© International Association for Applied Psychology, 2004. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK APPS pplied Psychology: an International Review 0269-994X © Int rnational Association for Applied Psychology, 2004 Janua y 2004 53 100 riginal Arti le EVALUATION OF SUBJECTIVE MENTAL ...

A series of three field experiments were conducted to evaluate the level of autonomous mobility for the Army’s Experimental Unmanned ground Vehicle (XUV), during which an assessment of operator mental workload was performed. Workload data collection methods employed were the “NASA Task Load Index”, the “Overall Workload” scale, and experimenter observation during partially autonomous operations...

Mental workload and mind-wandering are highly related to driving safety. This study investigated the relationship between mental workload and mind-wandering while driving. Participants (N = 40) were asked to perform a car following task in driving simulator, and report whether they had experienced mind-wandering upon hearing a tone. After driving, participants reported their workload using the ...

The present work is a quality-quantitative study of cause-effect type. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of a Labor Gym (LG) program in mental workload of workers from rectory of the Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (Unioeste) Cascavel. The sample consisted of 35 employees. For data collection, it was used the NASA-TLX questionnaire to evaluate the mental workloa...