Sunday, February 15, 2009

Touch in Early Development or Stress Workload and Fatigue

Touch in Early Development

Author: Tiffany M Field

A symposium titled, "Touch in Infancy" was held to celebrate the opening of the first Touch Research Institute in the world. Although touch is the largest sense organ in the body, it is the one that had been the most neglected and the only one to just recently have a research institute. Designed to conduct basic research on touch and on the skin, the institute will work with wellness programs such as massage therapy and other kinds of touch therapies to facilitate better health and to treat various diseases. The institute's opening symposium featured presentations from several of the world's leading experts in infant development. Published in this volume, their work addresses the relevance of touch to the neonate's well-being.



New interesting textbook: Essentiel d'Économie

Stress, Workload and Fatigue

Author: Peter A Hancock

The purpose of this volume is to seek out, describe, and explain the shared commonalities of stress, fatigue, and workload. To understand and predict human performance response, we have to reach beyond the sterile, information-processing models to incorporate the emotive, affective, or more generally, energetic aspects of cognition. These facets of behavior surface most readily when the individual acts under stress, is faced by significant cognitive workload, or is in the grip of fatigue. However, energetic characteristics are pervasive and exert a vital and ubiquitous influence, even when they are not obviously in play as in extreme circumstances. Indeed, one cannot hope to understand behavior without their inclusion and integration into models and theories. This text addresses such theoretical questions as one of its main thrusts. However, in addition to the drive for scientific understanding, there are requirements in our progressively more utilitarian society which generate the need for a more fundamental understanding of this particular topic.

Booknews

The Human Factors in Transportation series is intended as a forum for researchers and engineers in human factors, ergonomics, transportation engineering, experimental psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and safety engineering. In this volume, each of the three sections<-- >focusing on the components of stress, mental workload, and fatigue<-- >includes both theoretical and practical perspectives. Topics covered in 35 chapters include: stress and teams; stress in ambulance staff and among women police officers; safety effects from in-vehicle information systems; stress, workload, and boredom during tasks requiring vigilance; commercial driver fatigue; and examining work schedules for fatigue. Most chapters focus on the use of surface vehicles; a few are concerned with aviation and maritime systems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



Table of Contents:
Series Foreword
Preface
1.1Levels of Transaction: A Cognitive Science Framework for Operator Stress5
1.2An Information-Processing Model of Operator Stress and Performance34
1.3Stress and Teams: Performance Effects and Interventions83
1.4On Grasping a Nettle and Becoming Emotional107
1.5A Transactional Model of Driver Stress133
1.6Stress in Ambulance Staff167
1.7Women Police: The Impact of Work Stress on Family Members200
1.8Stress and Driving Performance: Implications for Design and Training211
1.9A Strategic Approach to Organizational Stress Management235
1.10The Future of Human Performance and Stress Research: A New Challenge249
2.1Stress, Workload, and Boredom in Vigilance: A Problem and an Answer267
2.2An Autonomic Space Approach to the Psychophysiological Assessment of Mental Workload279
2.3How Unexpected Events Produce an Escalation of Cognitive and Coordinative Demands290
2.4Adaptive Control of Mental Workload305
2.5Assessment of Drivers' Workload: Performance and Subjective and Physiological Indexes321
2.6Automation and Workload in Aviation Systems334
2.7Causes, Measures, and Effects of Driver Visual Workload351
2.8The Value of Workload in the Design and Analysis of Consumer Products373
2.9Workload and Air Traffic Control384
2.10Secondary-Task Measures of Driver Workload395
2.11Evaluating Safety Effects of In-Vehicle Information Systems409
2.12The Human Capacity for Work: A (Biased) Historical Perspective429
2.13Workload and Situation Awareness443
3.1Active and Passive Fatigue States455
3.2Defining Fatigue as a Condition of the Organism and Distinguishing It From Habituation, Adaptation, and Boredom466
3.3Mental Effort Regulation and the Functional Impairment of the Driver479
3.4A Heavy Vehicle Drowsy Driver Detection and Warning System: Scientific Issues and Technical Challenges503
3.5Examining Work Schedules for Fatigue: It's Not Just Hours of Work513
3.6Managing Fatigue in the RoadTransport Industry: An Occupational Safety and Health Solution531
3.7Broadening Our View of Effective Solutions to Commercial Driver Fatigue550
3.8Fatigue and Workload in the Maritime Industry566
3.9An Overview of Fatigue581
3.10Coping With Driver Fatigue: Is the Long Journey Nearly Over?596
3.11What Is Stress and What Is Fatigue?607
3.12Stress, Workload, and Fatigue as Three Biobehavioral States: A General Overview623
Author Index641
Subject Index663

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