Book Review: Mental Workload and Its Assessment Methods

Work and the human being are two essential, inseparable components that must be matched to one another in a fitting way. A lack of match and fit between a person's capabilities and the type of work they do, and the responsibility placed upon them, gives rise to many issues and problems. Among the demands and requirements of the workplace are greater physical and cognitive demands. In many work environments, modern technology imposes greater cognitive demands on operators than physical demands; therefore, understanding how mental workload affects performance is of great importance. Unlike the physical demands of work, cognitive or psychological demands cannot be seen directly. The concept of mental workload is a criterion for determining the mental demands of complex systems. Researchers must therefore know how to examine mental workload precisely and apply its results appropriately. Assessing mental workload is of great importance in the design and evaluation of complex systems. Advances in technology and the use of complex processes have imposed a higher level of job demand on operators. Operators have a flexible but ultimately limited attentional capacity, and these attentional resources are allocated to the relevant activities. In fact, mental workload represents the resources required by a task or a set of tasks. If performing a task requires excessive resources, performance is typically impaired. In this regard, this book—drawing on the authors' background of research related to mental workload—has been designed and compiled for the associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels in the fields of occupational health engineering, ergonomics, occupational medicine, HSE (Health, Safety, and Environment), educational sciences, psychology, psychiatry, and other related fields, and its strong point is the use of resources for assessing human mental workload in line with the tests employed. The present book is presented in five chapters: * Chapter One: History and Development * Chapter Two: Tests Measuring Primary and Secondary Task Performance * Chapter Three: Physiological Measurement Tests * Chapter Four: Subjective (Non-objective) Rating Techniques * Chapter Five: Analytical Measurements The authors of this collection hope that this work can address the shortage of existing scientific resources in the area of measuring and assessing mental workload and meet part of the needs of professors, specialists, and experts in this field.       https://irannashr.com/main/product/%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1-%da%a9%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c-%d9%88-%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%b4-%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%b2%db%8c%d8%a7%d8%a8%db%8c-%d8%a2%d9%86/