Research needs for human factors / Committee on Human Factors, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Human Factors.

Contributor:

Pew, Richard W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human engineering.

Interactive computer systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1983.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Research Needs for Human Factors""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW ""; ""HUMAN DECISION MAKING""; ""ELICITING EXPERT JUDGMENT""; ""SUPERVISORY CONTROL SYSTEMS""; ""USER-COMPUTER INTERACTION""; ""POPULATION GROUP DIFFERENCES""; ""APPLIED METHODS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""2 HUMAN DECISION MAKING ""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""RESEARCH ON DECISION MAKING""; ""Decision Structuring""; ""Measuring Preferences""; ""Evaluation""; ""Improving Realism""; ""Aiding Diffuse Decisions""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 ELICITING INFORMATION FROM EXPERTS ""; ""BACKGROUND""

""RESEARCH ON ELICITATION""""Ensuring a Common Frame of Reference""; ""Matching Questions to Mental Structures""; ""Clarifying Information Quality""; ""Eliciting Systems""; ""Estimating Numerical Quantities""; ""Detecting Reporting Bias""; ""Reporting Past Events""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 SUPERVISORY CONTROL SYSTEMS ""; ""SUPERVISORY CONTROL IN DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS""; ""Process Control""; ""Vehicle Control""; ""Manipulators and Discrete Parts Handling""; ""THEORY AND METHOD""; ""Modeling Supervisory Control""; ""Display and Command""

""Computer Knowledge-Based Systems and the Operator's Internal Cognitive Model""""Human-Machine Control""; ""Cognitive Science""; ""Mental Workload""; ""Human-Machine Control (This section is adapted from Sheridan and Young, 1982).""; ""Cognitive Science""; ""Human Proficiency and Error: Culpability, Trust, and Ultimate Authority""; ""CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 USER-COMPUTER INTERACTION ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE COMPUTER SYSTEM""; ""USERS AND TASKS""; ""Users""; ""Tasks""; ""COMPUTER HARDWARE""; ""Input Devices""; ""Output Devices""; ""CRT Displays""

""Alternatives to CRT Displays""""Workplace Design""; ""General Problems""; ""COMPUTER SOFTWARE""; ""DOCUMENTATION""; ""Documentation as Part of an Overall System""; ""Computer-Based Versus Print-on-Paper Documentation""; ""Capturing the Intent of the Creators of the System""; ""Dynamic Graphics and Documentation""; ""Documentation in the Form of Knowledge Bases""; ""Computer Systems to Facilitate Conventional Documentation""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""6 POPULATION GROUP DIFFERENCES ""; ""THE IMPACT OF FEDERAL ANTIDISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION""; ""SEX AND JOB PERFORMANCE""

""AGE AND JOB PERFORMANCE""""INTERACTIONS AMONG VARIABLES""; ""NATIONAL AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES""; ""INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND TRAINING""; ""BARRIERS TO SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RESEARCH ON POPULATION GROUP DIFFERENCES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""7 APPLIED METHODS IN HUMAN FACTORS ""; ""DOCUMENTATION OF APPLIED METHODS""; ""SURVEY OF HUMAN FACTORS SPECIALISTS ON APPLIED METHODS""; ""EDUCATION IN APPLIED METHODS""; ""Education in Colleges and Universities""; ""Continuing Education in Applied Methods""; ""RESEARCH ON APPLIED METHODS""

""Improvement and Extension of Existing Applied Methods""

Notes:

Committee chairman: Richard W. Pew.

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

9786610261239

9781280261237

1280261234

9780309592147

0309592143

OCLC:

923283817