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Human performance and ergonomics
Title:
Human performance and ergonomics
Author:
Hancock, Peter A., 1953-
ISBN:
9780080534213
9781281046505
Publication Information:
San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, ©1999.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiv, 397 pages) : illustrations
Series:
Handbook of perception and cognition (2nd ed.
Handbook of perception and cognition (2nd ed.)
Contents:
Engineering psychology and ergonomics / Raymond S. Nickerson -- Cognition in human-machine systems : experiential and environmental aspects of adaptation / Alex Kirlik and Ann M. Bisantz -- Human engineering for quality of life / Seiichiro Namba and Sonoko Kuwano -- Applied decision making / Gary Klein -- Beyond error : the language of coordination and stability / John M. Flach -- Communication aids for people with hearing loss / Harry Levitt -- Developing and evaluating conversational agents / Dominic W. Massaro [and others] -- Aerospace psychology / Christopher D. Wickens -- Expectancy and control : perceptual and cognitive aspects of the driving task / John A. Groeger -- Scaling problems in the design of work spaces for human use / Marvin J. Dainoff, Leonard S. Mark, and Douglas L. Gardner -- Human-computer interaction : the psychology of augmented human behavior / Mark Chignell, Peter A. Hancock, and Harumi Takeshita -- Human performance in multi-operator systems / Carol R. Paris, Eduardo Salas, and Janis A. Cannon-Bowers.
Abstract:
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 p.
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ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123227355Available:*
Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| BF353 .H86 1999 EB | 1184581-1001 | Elsevier E-Book Collections | Searching... |
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