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ERGONOMICS
卷 45, 期 3, 页码 186-202出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00140130110116623
关键词
workload; oxygen consumption; motion; fatigue; graded exercise test (GXT)
In previous studies on physical fatigue during simulated ship movements, the apparent exhaustion of subjects after experimentation suggested that the traditional index of physical workload, oxygen consumption expressed as the percentage of peak oxygen consumption ((V)over dotO(2-peak)) measured in a separate graded exercise test (GXT), underestimates workload in a moving environment. In these studies, the GXT was carried out in a stationary environment, as is standard practice. To explain the underestimation, it was hypothesized that (V)over dotO(2-peak) might have been less if the GXT had been carried out in the moving environment. This paper reports on three experimental tests of this hypothesis, performed with a ship motion simulator and aboard a ship at sea. In all three experiments, (V)over dotO(2-peak) was indeed significantly reduced when the GXT was carried out in the moving environment. Theoretical reasons for this phenomenon are discussed and investigated, but a clear explanation is still lacking.
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