Human factors: theory and practice (Wiley series in human factors)

Engineering & Transportation

Meister, David

Engineering

Wiley-Interscience

Describes the major methods of behavioral analysis and measurement--those methods used in collecting behavioral data, analyzing the requirements of man-machine system development, testing and evaluating systems during their development and operational use, and predicting their performance. This important work deals with both the design of systems and the assessment of their effectiveness. Includes many practical techniques.

Behavioral Analysis and Measurement Methods

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

The History of Human Factors and Ergonomics

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

The opening of the former Soviet Union to the West has provided an opportunity to describe Russian human factors/ergonomics and to compare American theories and methods with it. Although this book is principally dedicated to describing the theory of activity as it applies to issues of design and training, it is also offered to a general audience of psychologists and interested lay readers. This theory studies the goal-directed behavior of man and attempts to integrate the cognitive, motivational, and behavioral aspects of activity into a holistic system. Such fundamental notions as goal, action, and self-regulation are described and analyzed from totally different theoretical points of view.   This is the first comprehensive, systematic description of the theory of activity in the English language. Existing attempts to translate the theory of activity into English suffer from certain limitations. Among them, the theory of activity -- considered one of the more important accomplishments of Soviet psychological science -- has an extensive history dating back to the work of Vygotsky and his students. Subsequent development of the theory by other well-known Soviet psychologists and psychophysiologists took place within different schools with some significant differences. In the former Soviet Union, psychological theory could not be advanced unconnected to Marxist-Leninist ideology. Accordingly, theoretical formulations were subject to their own version of "political correctness." Books published in this field were addressed only to other scientists with backgrounds in the field. Moreover, the translation of the technical terms in Russian psychology frequently resist translation in the absence of the context of the debates in which they were being used. Thus, simple translation of books in this field as they were written in a specialized and politicized environment for Russian audiences is really not a particularly sensible or worthwhile undertaking.   This book is addressed in the first instance to Western psychologists. It compares, among other things, analyses of work from the former Soviet Union with the work from the West. Applications of activity theory to design and learning were paramount in the Soviet Union. Using their own theoretical perspective, the authors provide a comparative analysis of the various schools working in activity theory. They hope that this book may facilitate the exchange of ideas between Russian psychological scientists and Western psychologists working in ergonomics, human factors, industrial/organizational psychology, education, learning, and related areas where the theory of activity may find general application.  This book's authors attempt to provide a contribution not only to science but also to history. Western researchers have strongly influenced Russian work, but because of negative political pressure in the former USSR, the flow of concepts was one-sided. Russian ergonomists received so much from American and Western sources that it is now important to give something back. Despite the considerable similarity between Russian and American theories and methods, the special "spin" the former put on their work may stimulate new thinking on the part of their American colleagues.

The Russian Theory of Activity: Current Applications To Design and Learning (Applied Psychology Series)

Bedny, Gregory

Psychology Press

Human factors/ergonomics (HFE) as a discipline has grown by accretions rather than having been developed systematically and deliberately. Therefore, this book's goal creates a formal conceptual structure for HFE. It is intended as a contribution to cultural history because (a) ours is a technological civilization, and (b) one cannot understand technology outside of the various disciplines that make up that technology. A disciplinary history is highly specialized, but the author maintains that HFE is distinctive in being the only discipline that relates humans to technology. Other behavioral disciplines like anthropology have little connection with technology, and this is what makes HFE important in the present historical era.

Science & Math

Technology

CRC-Press

Human factors/ergonomics (HFE) as a discipline has grown by accretions rather than having been developed systematically and deliberately. Therefore, this book's goal creates a formal conceptual structure for HFE. It is intended as a contribution to cultural history because (a) ours is a technological civilization, and (b) one cannot understand technology outside of the various disciplines that make up that technology. A disciplinary history is highly specialized, but the author maintains that HFE is distinctive in being the only discipline that relates humans to technology. Other behavioral disciplines like anthropology have little connection with technology, and this is what makes HFE important in the present historical era.

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Human Factors in System Design, Development, and Testing describes engineering system design as a behavioral process, a process which raises questions the designer must answer. It focuses on the concepts underlying the design process, culminating in a behavioral theory of the design process. Special effort has been made to depict human factors design as it actually occurs. Particular attention is paid to users of the design products, with special emphasis on design for the elderly and handicapped. Written by one of the first leaders in human factors, this book features: *the use of a large scale survey of design specialists to determine how design issues and problems are dealt with in real life; *an analysis of the engineering design process as actually being based on cognitive behaviors; and *the development of a behavioral theory of design.

Human Factors in System Design, Development, and Testing (Human Factors and Ergonomics)

Computers & Technology

Enderwick, Thomas P.

Computer Science

David Meister, in his latest volume, sets explores the uncharted depths behind the most common practices and most basic principles of Human Factors (HF) and its measurement process. Seeking to question the status quo, he asks what significant changes have occurred in the discipline since its inception and what capabilities have been developed. To what extent have HF design specialists made use of research outputs and how do these outputs contribute to system design? Neither didactic nor stodgy, this book examines the conceptual foundations of customary measurement practices and stimulates readers to ask their own questions. In a field with much unknown territory, Meister has provided a necessary exploration guide.

Conceptual Foundations of Human Factors Measurement (Human Factors and Ergonomics)

Human Factors in System Design, Development, and Testing describes engineering system design as a behavioral process, a process which raises questions the designer must answer. It focuses on the concepts underlying the design process, culminating in a behavioral theory of the design process. Special effort has been made to depict human factors design as it actually occurs. Particular attention is paid to users of the design products, with special emphasis on design for the elderly and handicapped.  Written by one of the first leaders in human factors, this book features: *the use of a large scale survey of design specialists to determine how design issues and problems are dealt with in real life; *an analysis of the engineering design process as actually being based on cognitive behaviors; and *the development of a behavioral theory of design.

Human Factors in System Design, Development, and Testing

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Human factors: theory and practice (Wiley series in human factors)

Behavioral Analysis and Measurement Methods

The History of Human Factors and Ergonomics

The Russian Theory of Activity: Current Applications To Design and Learning (Applied Psychology Series)

The History of Human Factors and Ergonomics

The History of Human Factors and Ergonomics

Human Factors in System Design, Development, and Testing (Human Factors and Ergonomics)

Conceptual Foundations of Human Factors Measurement (Human Factors and Ergonomics)

Human Factors in System Design, Development, and Testing