Workload analysis

Human Factors Engineering/Ergonomics approach (control of error by design, audit, and feedback of operational experience) Occupational/process safety Manual/control operations Routine operation Task analysis Job design Workplace design Interface design Physical environment evaluation Workload analysis Infrequent... 

A great deal has been written about manual documentation systems in the pharmacy literature, both in clinical practice and in education, but these systems tend to be individualized applications in which the transfer of data to other providers is nonexistent or quite limited. " Many documentation systems in pharmacy focus on the generation of reports for workload analysis or accreditation purposes. Unfortunately, the information gathered and analyzed in such... 

The workload-analysis methodology described above has recently been developed into a stand-alone task network modeling tool by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED), as part of the Improved Performance Research Integration Tool (IMPRINT) (Allender et al. 1994 Archer and Adkins 1999). IMPRINT integrates task network modeling software with features to support specifically the multiple-resource theory of workload discussed... 

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A useful tool, prior to the flight testing phase, is the Operational Workload Analysis (OWA), which recognises that the likelihood of a human error in a task is directly related to the way the task itself is designed and the quality of the following key factors ... 

As explained in the previous section, in order to determine the workload of operators in the advanced MCR, both the communicative behavior between operators and the operational behavior for operation of MMIS-based control equipment should be considered in addition to a measurement of the cognitive workload. In order to resolve this problem, this research is based on the workload measurement method used in various existing fields, and it was realized in the way of integration with the workload analysis method required additionally. 

As shown in the table, the results of the workload analysis for step 4 of the procedures indicate that step 4 consists of 3 cognitive tasks (two for SS, one for RO), 6 communicative tasks (three for SS,... 

The results for the workload analysis indicate that the cognitive activities of SS are far more than those of other operators. It was found that as the communicative activities of SS are also the most, SS leads the entire MCR. Not only that, but SS is also found to conduct more operational activities than other operators. This shows that SS increases the frequency of operational activities by executing diagnostic procedures (SPTAP + DP) and Optimum Operation Procedures (ORP), using the CBPs, under the operation environment of an advanced MCR. 

The COCOA developed in this research presents the framework suitable to a workload analysis of the operators in an advanced MCR. This also presents the taxonomy for additional operation activities of operators to use the computerized procedures and soft control added to the advanced MCR, and it enables an integrated measurement of the operator workload in various dimensions of cognition, communication, and operation. Of course, even though it is impossible to get an arithmetic average of the load values measured in each dimension, additional research is needed to present a comprehensive measure in consideration of the weighed values between factors (dimensions). In addition, the measurement method presented in COCOA is regarded as a calculation method to enable a eomparison between operators. 

Workload analysis is an analysis of the demand placed on the operator by the task requirements. 

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