PWSA 2014 - International Workshop on Performance, workload, and SA metric

The cornerstone of human factors engineering is performance measurement. How well operators perform tasks is used to guide design from concept to production, to select among alternative training systems, to select personnel for jobs, and to support research on human perception, decision making, and response execution. All human factors engineers need both solid scientific and practical knowledge of human performance measurement. However, measuring performance is not sufficient. Systems must also be designed for optimum workload. To meet this need, this workshop will define workload, provide performance, subjective, simulation, and physiological measures of workload, and give guidance on how to select the right workload measure. For Situational Awareness, four types of measures will be presented: subjective, observational, physiological, and measures of Situational Awareness ability.