Measurement Methodology for Perceptual-Motor Performance under Highly Transient Extreme Heat Stress
In: Human factors: the journal of the Human Factors Society, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 391-403
ISSN: 1547-8181
The existing state of the art for handling human performance under transient heat stress has been reviewed. It was concluded that it is necessary to develop a new methodology based on "micro-performance" measurements to assess severe localized transient heat stresses relevant to contemporary flight problems. The test procedure proposed is based on the rationale that a primary task, with difficulty that can be varied according to subject error in order to maintain a relatively constant subject performance level, can be used as a measure of the moment-to-moment perceptual load. In addition to the primary task, secondary tasks are suggested to help simulate problems in decision-making and verbal communication.