DRIVER’S MENTAL WORKLOAD: TASK PERFORMANCE AND MENTAL WORKLOAD
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v76.5724Keywords:
Mental workload, performance measurement, safety, driver assistanceAbstract
It is known that unnecessary increase of driver’s mental workload may be a cause of road traffic crashes. In the recent decades, mental workload’s level detection has been one of the major interesting research subjects in today’s society. This paper discussed the relationship between driver’s performance and mental workload level. The results reveal that there is a significant effect on driving task performance to participants’ mental workload while performing different level of secondary task and driving task.Â
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