Human Factors Specialists Education And Utilization Results Of A Survey

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Human-Systems Integration
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780309046930

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Human Factors Specialists'Education and Utilization by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Human-Systems Integration Pdf

Does the education given by the nation's human factors graduate training programs meet the skill and knowledge needs of today's employers? Can the supply of trained human factors specialists be expected to keep pace with the demand? What are the characteristics, employment settings, gender distribution, and salaries of human factors specialists? These and other questions were posed by the committee as it designed mail-in and computer-aided telephone surveys used to query human factors specialists. The committee evaluates its findings and makes recommendations aimed at strengthening the profession of human factors. This book will be useful to educators as an aid in evaluating their graduate training curricula, employers in working with graduate programs and enhancing staff opportunities for continuing education, and professionals in assessing their status in relation to their colleagues.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Human-Systems Integration,Committee on Human Factors
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780309052764

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Emerging Needs and Opportunities for Human Factors Research by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Human-Systems Integration,Committee on Human Factors Pdf

This book identifies areas that represent new needs and opportunities for human factors research in the coming decades. It is forward-looking, problem oriented, and selectively focused on national or global problems, including productivity in organizations, education and training, employment and disabilities, health care, and environmental change; technology issues, including communications technology and telenetworking, information access and usability, emerging technologies, automation, and flexible manufacturing, and advanced transportation systems; and human performance, including cognitive performance under stress and aiding intellectual work.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Human-Systems Integration
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780309058940

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The Case For Human Factors in Industry and Government by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Human-Systems Integration Pdf

Author : Peter A. Hancock
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 008053421X

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Human Performance and Ergonomics by Peter A. Hancock Pdf

Human Performance and Ergonomics brings together a comprehensive and modern account of how the context of performance is crucial to understanding behavior. Environment provides both constraints and opportunities to individuals, such that external conditions may have reciprocal or interactive effects on behavior. The book begins with an account of research in human factors and engineering, with application of research to real world environments, methodological concerns, and rumination on current and future trends. The book proceeds to how technology has moved from being designed to help human physical survival to helping humans achieve "quality of life" improvements. Real world examples are explored in detail including hearing technology, driving, and aviation. Issues of control, maneuvering, and planning are discussed in conjunction with how intention and expectancy affect behavior. The fit between human and environment is examined as a dynamic interaction, and many chapters address the all important human-machine communication, particularly that between humans and computers. The book closes with a reminder that even our technological environment is filled with other people, with whom we must interact personally or via technology, to achieve our larger goals. Teamwork is thus discussed for its integration of cognitive, behavioral, and affective components toward our achieving desired aims. * Includes the application of research in human factors in engineering to real world environments * Discussion of both current and future trends is included * Real-world examples of how technology is now helping humans to achieve "quality of life" improvements are explored in detail including hearing technology, driving and aviation * Many chapters examine the all important human/machine communication, particularly human-computer interaction (HCI)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993-06-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0080566685

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Advances in Computers by Anonim Pdf

Advances in Computers

Author : Walter C. Borman,Daniel R. Ilgen,Richard J. Klimoski
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780471264538

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Handbook of Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, CafeScribe by Walter C. Borman,Daniel R. Ilgen,Richard J. Klimoski Pdf

Includes established theories and cutting-edge developments. Presents the work of an international group of experts. Presents the nature, origin, implications, an future course of major unresolved issues in the area.

Author : Waldemar Karwowski,William S. Marras
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203507926

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Occupational Ergonomics by Waldemar Karwowski,William S. Marras Pdf

Occupational Ergonomics: Principles of Work Design focuses on the fundamentals in ergonomics design and evaluation. Divided into two parts, Part I covers the background for the discipline and profession of ergonomics and offers an international perspective on ergonomics. Part II describes the foundations of ergonomics knowledge, including fundament

Author : Waldemar Karwowski,William S. Marras
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 2092 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0849326419

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The Occupational Ergonomics Handbook by Waldemar Karwowski,William S. Marras Pdf

Occupational ergonomics and safety studies the application of human behavior, abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design, testing, and evaluation of tools, machines, systems, tasks, jobs, and environments for productive, safe, comfortable, and effective use. Occupational Ergonomics Handbook provides current, comprehensive knowledge in this broad field, providing essential, state-of-the-art information from nearly 150 international leaders of this discipline. The text assesses the knowledge and expertise applied to industrial environments: Providing engineering guidelines for redesigning tools, machines, and work layouts Evaluating the demands placed on workers by current jobs Simulating alternative work methods Determining the potential for reducing physical job demands based on the implementation of new methods Topics also include: Fundamental ergonomic design principles at work Work-related musculoskeletal injuries, such as cumulative trauma to the upper extremity (CTDs) and low back disorders (LBDs), which affect several million workers each year with total costs exceeding $100 billion annually Current knowledge used for minimizing human suffering, potential for occupational disability, and related worker's compensation costs Working conditions under which musculoskeletal injuries might occur Engineering design measures for eliminating or reducing known job-risk factors Optimal manufacturing processes regarding human perceptual and cognitive abilities as well as task reliability Identifying the worker population affected by adverse conditions Early medical and work intervention efforts Economics of an ergonomics maintenance program Ergonomics as an essential cost to doing business Ergonomics intervention includes design for manufacturability, total quality management, and work organization. Occupational Ergonomics Handbook demonstrates how ergonomics serves as a vital component for the activities of the company and enables an advantageous cooperation between management and labor. This new handbook serves a broad segment of industrial practitioners, including industrial and manufacturing engineers; managers; plant supervisors and ergonomics professionals; researchers and students from academia, business, and government; human factors and safety specialists; physical therapists; cognitive and work psychologists; sociologists; and human-computer communications specialists.

Author : Harold R. Booher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0471020532

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Handbook of Human Systems Integration by Harold R. Booher Pdf

A groundbreaking look at how technology with a human touch is revolutionizing government and industry Human Systems Integration (HSI) is very attractive as a new integrating discipline designed to help move business and engineering cultures toward a more people-technology orientation. Over the past decade, the United States and foreign governments have developed a wide range of tools, techniques, and technologies aimed at integrating human factors into engineering systems in order to achieve important cost and performance benefits that otherwise would not have been accomplished. In order for this new discipline to be effective, however, a cultural change is needed that must start with organizational leadership. Handbook of Human Systems Integration outlines the principles and methods that can be used to help integrate people, technology, and organizations with a common objective toward designing, developing, and operating systems effectively and efficiently. Handbook of Human Systems Integration is broad in scope, covering both public and commercial processes as they interface with systems engineering processes. Emphasizing the importance of management and organization concepts as well as the technical uniqueness of HSI, Handbook of Human Systems Integration features: * More than ninety contributors, technical advisors, and reviewers from government, industry, and academia * Comprehensive coverage of the most recent HSI developments, particularly in presenting the cutting-edge tools, techniques, and methodologies utilized by each of the HSI domains * Chapters representing the governments and industries of the United Kingdom and Canada * Contributions from three services of the Department of Defense along with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Academy of Sciences * Many chapters covering both military and nonmilitary applications * Concepts widely used by government contractors both in the United States and abroad This book will be of special interest to HSI practitioners, systems engineers, and managers, as well as government and industry decision-makers who must weigh the recommendations of all multidisciplines contributing to systems performance, safety, and costs in order to make sound systems acquisition decisions.

Author : J.L. Mey,B. Gorayska
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0080529313

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Cognitive Technology by J.L. Mey,B. Gorayska Pdf

In this book the editors have gathered a number of contributions by persons who have been working on problems of Cognitive Technology (CT). The present collection initiates explorations of the human mind via the technologies the mind produces. These explorations take as their point of departure the question What happens when humans produce new technologies? Two interdependent perspectives from which such a production can be approached are adopted: • How and why constructs that have their origins in human mental life are embodied in physical environments when people fabricate their habitat, even to the point of those constructs becoming that very habitat • How and why these fabricated habitats affect, and feed back into, human mental life. The aim of the CT research programme is to determine, in general, which technologies, and in particular, which interactive computer-based technologies, are humane with respect to the cognitive development and evolutionary adaptation of their end users. But what does it really mean to be humane in a technological world? To shed light on this central issue other pertinent questions are raised, e.g. • Why are human minds externalised, i.e., what purpose does the process of externalisation serve? • What can we learn about the human mind by studying how it externalises itself? • How does the use of externalised mental constructs (the objects we call 'tools') change people fundamentally? • To what extent does human interaction with technology serve as an amplification of human cognition, and to what extent does it lead to a atrophy of the human mind? The book calls for a reflection on what a tool is. Strong parallels between CT and environmentalism are drawn: both are seen as trends having originated in our need to understand how we manipulate, by means of the tools we have created, our natural habitat consisting of, on the one hand, the cognitive environment which generates thought and determines action, and on the other hand, the physical environment in which thought and action are realised. Both trends endeavour to protect the human habitat from the unwanted or uncontrolled impact of technology, and are ultimately concerned with the ethics and aesthetics of tool design and tool use. Among the topics selected by the contributors to the book, the following themes emerge (the list is not exhaustive): using technology to empower the cognitively impaired; the ethics versus aesthetics of technology; the externalisation of emotive and affective life and its special dialectic ('mirror') effects; creativity enhancement: cognitive space, problem tractability; externalisation of sensory life and mental imagery; the engineering and modelling aspects of externalised life; externalised communication channels and inner dialogue; externalised learning protocols; relevance analysis as a theoretical framework for cognitive technology.

Author : Stephen F. Davis,William Buskist
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781412949682

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21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook by Stephen F. Davis,William Buskist Pdf

Highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates in the field of psychology. Provides material of interest for students from all corners of psychological studies, whether their interests be in the biological, cognitive, developmental, social, or clinical arenas.

Author : Ki In Joo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D00973576Q

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Population Dynamics of Scientists by Ki In Joo Pdf

Author : Mark S Sanders,Ernest J McCormick
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076001376602

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Human Factors In Engineering and Design by Mark S Sanders,Ernest J McCormick Pdf

Combines an emphasis on the empirical research basis of human factors with comprehensive coverage of basic concepts in the field of human factors and ergonomics. This edition has been updated and contains a new chapter on motor skills. Several chapters have been revised reflecting current research.

Author : Irving B. Weiner,W. Edward Craighead
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470170267

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The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, Volume 2 by Irving B. Weiner,W. Edward Craighead Pdf

Psychologists, researchers, teachers, and students need complete and comprehensive information in the fields of psychology and behavioral science. The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, Volume Two has been the reference of choice for almost three decades. This indispensable resource is updated and expanded to include much new material. It uniquely and effectively blends psychology and behavioral science. The Fourth Edition features over 1,200 entries; complete coverage of DSM disorders; and a bibliography of over 10,000 citations. Readers will benefit from up-to-date and authoritative coverage of every major area of psychology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : MINN:31951D01117457Q

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Advances in Psychology by Anonim Pdf