Using fuzzy measures of task difficulty the effect of combining different aspects of a task on the overall task workload was explored. A complete set of combination rules is provided, of the general form “if the skill-based component is slightly difficult, the rule-based moderately difficult, and the knowledge-based slightly difficult, then the task as a whole is moderately difficult.” Fuzzy linguistic variables provide an adequate systematic framework for such combined judgments.
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