OBJECTIVE To measure the workload of residents in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and to compare this value with the possible explanatory variables "nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score" (NEMS), length of stay (LOS), patient age and severity of illness at admission. METHODS This was a prospective study in a tertiary, interdisciplinary neonatal-paediatric intensive care unit....

A navigator efforts to handle the ship for safe navigation by judging navigational information on own ship’s condition, targets and current-wind effect, and he/she has the responsibility of human lives and economical values under the judgment. The navigator keeps a mental workload during the navigational watch keeping. Therefore, we need the development of a support system to reduce the mental ...

Flight decks of the future are being enhanced through improved avionics that adapt to both aircraft and operator state. Eye tracking allows for non-invasive analysis of pilot eye movements, from which a set of metrics can be derived to effectively and reliably characterize workload. This research identifies eye tracking metrics that correlate to aircraft automation conditions, and identifies th...

This paper presents results from a user evaluation of a real multiple robot system in which the human’s perceived workload and performance were measured. Participants completed tasks with one, two, and four real heterogeneous mobile ground-based robots for indoor material transportation tasks. Twelve participants completed four trials of each task over two days. Generally speaking, little diffe...

BACKGROUND Pediatricians' workload is increasingly thought to affect pediatricians' quality of work life and patient safety. Workflow interruptions are a frequent stressor in clinical work, impeding clinicians' attention and contributing to clinical malpractice. We aimed to investigate prospective associations of workflow interruptions with multiple dimensions of mental workload in pediatrician...

IS perceptual constructs such as Arousal and Workload have shown to determine the impact of elements of user environment on their behaviour. While the impact of these constructs has been validated using a multitude of methods, there is little work which considers their dynamic interplay in determining behaviour. To this end, an auction setting where participants have shown differences in the fi...

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author is grateful to have contributed to workload analysis and numerous other aspects of the Multi-Modal Watchstation demonstration project. Specific thanks to Christopher Griffith for software development that allowed capture of workload-related indices, and to Kimberly Heinlein for assistance in obtaining workload da...

Ginosar, et al. describe a new performance indicator, the Obstetric Anesthesia Activity Index, to represent the current amount of obstetric anesthesia work done daily at each of 25 Israeli hospitals. The authors claim, correctly, that this index is a closer reflection of the anesthetic workload than simply looking at the number of deliveries at each hospital. However, the Obstetric Anesthesia A...