Title

Selection For Vigilance Assignments: A Review And Proposed New Direction

Keywords

Individual differences; Neuroergonomics; Selection; Stress; Vigilance

Abstract

Vigilance or sustained attention is a critical aspect of operational tasks including air-traffic control, airport security, industrial quality control and inspection, and medical screening and monitoring. Consequently, the selection of personnel for assignments involving vigilance is a key ergonomic concern. As reviewed herein, traditional approaches to personnel selection for tasks requiring vigilance have concentrated on unidimensional measures involving sensory acuity, aptitude, sex, age and personality factors. These approaches have been ineffective. In this article, we suggest an alternative approach in which the selection issue is considered in terms of a theory-driven analysis of different types of vigilance tasks and multidimensional predictors. As an example of that approach, we made use of a resource model of vigilance and measures of cerebral blood flow velocity and subjective state obtained from a short battery of high-workload tasks to successfully predict individual performance on subsequent high-workload sensory and cognitive vigilance tasks. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.

Publication Date

7-1-2011

Publication Title

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

Volume

12

Issue

4

Number of Pages

273-296

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/14639221003622620

Socpus ID

79960691120 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79960691120

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