@inproceedings{05264b9378f6418cb0574cecd5722677,
title = "Mental workload in medicine: Foundations, applications, open problems, challenges and future perspectives",
abstract = "Mental workload is a design concept borrowed from Ergonomics with a significant adoption in the aviation and automobile industries. Nowadays, the consideration of this construct is also taking place in many modern clinical working environments for designing interacting and complex systems that impose ever greater cognitive demand on operators and less physical load. Measuring mental workload is essential for improving the interaction human-system, enhancing performance, reducing the operator's error and increasing safety. However, defining, measuring, assessing mental workload and understanding how this impinges on performance are still open problems. This secondary research is firstly aimed at introducing the construct of mental workload, its foundations, measurements techniques as well as applications in medicine. It then discusses open problems for applied research and eventually, it concludes with a list of challenges for scholars and practitioners. The goal is to provide the reader with a picture of the state of the science of mental workload in medicine and clinical domains with an eye towards future research.",
keywords = "Critical systems, Healt-care, Medicine, Mental workload, Safety, System design",
author = "Luca Longo",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 29th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2016 ; Conference date: 20-06-2016 Through 23-06-2016",
year = "2016",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1109/CBMS.2016.36",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "106--111",
booktitle = "Proceedings - IEEE 29th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2016",
address = "United States",
}