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Fighter pilots' heart rate, heart rate variation and performance during instrument approaches
- Source :
- Ergonomics. 59(10)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Fighter pilots' heart rate (HR), heart rate variation (HRV) and performance during instrument approaches were examined. The subjects were required to fly instrument approaches in a high-fidelity simulator under various levels of task demand. The task demand was manipulated by increasing the load on the subjects by reducing the range at which they commenced the approach. HR and the time domain components of HRV were used as measures of pilot mental workload (PMWL). The findings of this study indicate that HR and HRV are sensitive to varying task demands. HR and HRV were able to distinguish the level of PMWL after which the subjects were no longer able to cope with the increasing task demands and their instrument landing system performance fell to a sub-standard level. The major finding was the HR/HRV's ability to differentiate the sub-standard performance approaches from the high-performance approaches. Practitioner Summary: This paper examined if HR and HRV were sensitive to varying task demands in a fighter aviation environment and if these measures were related to variations in pilot's performance.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
medicine.medical_specialty
Aircraft
heart rate variation
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Workload
pilot mental workload
Task (project management)
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Heart Rate
Heart rate
Task Performance and Analysis
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Computer Simulation
Instrument landing system
050107 human factors
Simulation
Finland
Analysis of Variance
business.industry
05 social sciences
Heart rate variation
ta3141
Pilots
Military Personnel
Task demand
Aerospace Medicine
business
Aviation
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
performance
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13665847
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ergonomics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....846f94f9cb37158904fd7c480901c33e