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Braat-Eggen, E. (author), Reinten, J. (author), Hornikx, M. (author), Kohlrausch, A. (author)Students can be disturbed by background noise while working in an open-plan study environment. To improve the acoustic quality of open-plan study environments a study was done on the influence of different sound scenarios on students working on a typical student task, “studying for an exam”. Three sound scenarios and a quiet reference sound...article 2021
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Bottenheft, C. (author), Brouwer, A.M. (author), Stuldreher, I. (author), Groen, E. (author), van Erp, J. (author)Effects of stressors on cognitive task performance have primarily been studied in isolation, and little is known about the combined effects of two or more stressors. This study examined how a metabolic stressor (skipping breakfast) and a sensory stressor (noise) affect cognitive task performance in isolation and combined. In addition to...article 2021
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Daderman, A.M. (author), Ingelgard, A. (author), Koopmans, L. (author)BACKGROUND: There is a need for a short, self-rated, validated and reliable instrument for individual work performance suitable for generic use in the Swedish work and organizational context. The Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ), comprising originally 47 items, was initially developed in the Netherlands, based on a four...article 2020
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van Beurden, M. (author), Brouwer, A.M. (author), van Baardewijk, J.U. (author), Binsch, O. (author), Vermetten, E. (author), Roijendijk, L. (author)Feedback of physiological responses have a great potential to support virtual training paradigms aimed to increase cognitive task performance under stressful threatening conditions. In the current study, we examined the sensitivity of a range of physiological indicators derived from electrodermal activity (EDA), blood pressure (BP) and heart...article 2020
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van de Merwe, D.B. (author), van Maanen, L. (author), ter Haar, F.B. (author), van Dijk, R.J.E. (author), Hoeba, N. (author), van der Stap, N. (author)Virtual Reality (VR) mediated teleoperation is a relatively new field in robotics which means little is known about the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of environmental information presentation on Human-Robot Team (HRT) task performance and operator Situation Awareness (oSA). Method. The...conference paper 2019
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Ramos-Villagrasa, P.J. (author), Barrada, J.R. (author), Fernández-del-Río, E. (author), Koopmans, L. (author)Job performance is considered the “ultimate dependent variable” in human resource management, turning its assessment into a capital issue. The present study analyzes the functioning of a brief 18-item self-report scale, the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ), which measures the main dimensions of job performance (task performance,...article 2019
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Werkhoven, P. (author), Kester, L. (author), Neerincx, M. (author)Recent progress in Artificial Intelligence, sensing and network technology, robotics, and (cloud) computing has enabled the development of intelligent autonomous machine systems. Telling such autonomous systems "what to do" in a responsible way, is a non-trivial task. For intelligent autonomous machines to function in human society and...conference paper 2018
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White, K. (author), Bronkhorst, A.W. (author), Meeter, M. (author)Previous studies have shown that identifiability of sound sources influence noise annoyance levels. The aim of the present experiment was to additionally study the effects of actively performing a task versus a less active pastime on noise annoyance. This was done by asking participants to perform a task (task condition) or read a magazine of...article 2018
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van Diik, W. (author), van de Wijdeven, T. (author), Hölscher, M.M. (author), Barents, R. (author), Könemann, R. (author), Krause, F. (author), Koerhuis, C.L. (author)The load that is carried in military backpacks has drastically increased over the years. Besides energy expenditure, load carriage increases joint loading which has been associated with an increased risk on injuries, discomfort, and reduced task performance. To support soldiers during load carrying, exoskeletons have been proposed. The use of...conference paper 2018
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van der Kleij, R. (author), Hueting, T.F. (author), Schraagen, J.M.C. (author)Dynamic Positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled process to automatically keep a floating vessel at a specific position or to follow a pre-defined path (tracking) by using its own propellers and thrusters. The human supervisory controller has no direct need to constantly know what the status is of all parts of the automation and the system it...article 2018
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Tielman, M.L. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), van Meggelen, M. (author), Franken, I. (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: With the rise of autonomous e-mental health applications, virtual agents can play a major role in improving trustworthiness, therapy outcome and adherence. In these applications, it is important that patients adhere in the sense that they perform the tasks, but also that they adhere to the specific recommendations on...article 2017
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Effects of different real-time feedback types on human performance in high-demanding work conditionsCohen, I. (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)Experiencing stress during training is a way to prepare professionals for real-life crises. With the help of feedback tools, professionals can train to recognize and overcome negative effects of stress on task performances. This paper reports two studies that empirically examined the effect of such a feedback system. The system, based on the...article 2016
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Koijck, L.A. (author), Toet, A. (author), van Erp, J.B.F. (author)Previous research has shown that odorants consistently evoke associations with textures and their tactile properties like smoothness and roughness. Also, it has been observed that olfaction can modulate tactile perception. We therefore hypothesized that tactile roughness perception may be biased towards the somatosensory connotation of an...article 2015
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Ettwig, J.F. (author), Bronkhorst, A.W. (author)In four experiments, we studied the time course of interference between detection of an oddball orientation target (OT) in an 8-item circular search display, and identification of a letter target (LT) in a central stream of distractor letters. Dual-task performance for different temporal lags between targets was compared to single-task...article 2015
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van Stiphout, F. (author), Zwart-van Rijkom, J.E.F. (author), Maggio, L.A. (author), Aarts, J.E.C.M. (author), Bates, D.W. (author), van Gelder, T. (author), Jansen, P.A.F. (author), Schraagen, J.M.C. (author), Egberts, A.C.G. (author), ter Braak, E.W.M.T. (author)Aims Educating physicians in the procedural as well as cognitive skills of information technology (IT)-mediated medication management could be one of the missing links for the improvement of patient safety. We aimed to compose a framework of tasks that need to be addressed to optimize medication management in outpatient care. Methods Formal task...article 2015
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Hiemstra-van Mastrigt, S. (author), Kamp, I. (author), van Veen, S.A.T. (author), Vink, P. (author), Bosch, T. (author)New technologies have led to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. Sedentary behaviour is characterised by physical inactivity and is associated with several health risks. This excessive sitting does not only take place in the office or at home, but also during daily commute. Therefore, BMW AG developed an active seating system for the back seat...article 2015
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Douwes, M. (author), de Kraker, H. (author)To support health and safety practitioners in their obligation of risk assessment the 'Hand Arm Risk Assessment Method' (HARM) was developed. This tool can be used by any type of company for risk assessment of developing arm, neck or shoulders symptoms (pain) resulting from light manual tasks.This paper describes the development of HARM1.0. A...article 2014
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Douwes, M. (author), Boocock, M. (author), Coenen, P. (author), van den Heuvel, S. (author), Bosch, T. (author)The Hand Arm Risk assessment Method (HARM) is a simplified risk assessment method for determining musculoskeletal symptoms to the arm, neck and/or shoulder posed by hand-arm tasks of the upper body. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictive validity of HARM using data collected from a three year prospective cohort Study on...article 2014
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Risto, M. (author), Martens, M.H. (author)With specific headway instructions drivers are not able to attain the exact headways as instructed. In this study, the effects of discrete headway feedback (and the direction of headway adjustment) on headway accuracy for drivers carrying out time headway instructions were assessed experimentally. Two groups of each 10 participants (one...article 2014
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Brouwer, A.M. (author), Hogervorst, M.A. (author), Holewijn, M. (author), van Erp, J.B.F. (author)Learning to master a task is expected to be accompanied by a decrease in effort during task execution. We examine the possibility to monitor learning using physiological measures that have been reported to reflect effort or workload. Thirty-five participants performed different difficulty levels of the n-back task while a range of physiological...article 2014