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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gregory Z. Bedny , Waldemar Karwowski (Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, USA) , Inna Bedny (Evolute, LLC, Louisville, Kentucky, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: CRC Press Weight: 0.798kg ISBN: 9781138747968ISBN 10: 1138747963 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 13 February 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe book overcomes the traditional separation between cognition, behavior, and motivation using a systemic approach to the analysis of human work activity. The new approach enables a more user-friendly design of tasks in HCI and ergonomic design of complex human-machine systems such as operation of automatic or semiautomatic systems. ... The authors did an outstanding job. -Helmut Strasser, Ergonomics Division Siegen University/Germany ... presents a new systemic view based on activity theory to a very challenging multi-dimensional field. ... The theory presented in the book is put into practice and can be used also by practitioners in different fields. -Jussi Kantola Professor, University of Vaasa, Finland The book overcomes the traditional separation between cognition, behavior, and motivation using a systemic approach to the analysis of human work activity. The new approach enables a more user-friendly design of tasks in HCI and ergonomic design of complex human-machine systems such as operation of automatic or semiautomatic systems. ... The authors did an outstanding job. -Helmut Strasser, Ergonomics Division Siegen University/Germany ... presents a new systemic view based on activity theory to a very challenging multi-dimensional field. ... The theory presented in the book is put into practice and can be used also by practitioners in different fields. -Jussi Kantola Professor, University of Vaasa, Finland """The book overcomes the traditional separation between cognition, behavior, and motivation using a systemic approach to the analysis of human work activity. The new approach enables a more user-friendly design of tasks in HCI and ergonomic design of complex human–machine systems such as operation of automatic or semiautomatic systems. … The authors did an outstanding job."" —Helmut Strasser, Ergonomics Division Siegen University/Germany ""… presents a new systemic view based on activity theory to a very challenging multi-dimensional field. … The theory presented in the book is put into practice and can be used also by practitioners in different fields."" —Jussi Kantola Professor, University of Vaasa, Finland" Author InformationGregory Bedny presently resides in Wayne, NJ. He works as a Research Associate at Evolute, Inc. in Louisville, Kentucky. He is an American citizen who emigrated from the former Soviet where he earned his Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Industrial Organizational Psychology from the Educational University of Moscow and a Post-Doctorate Degree (ScD) in Experimental Psychology from the Institute of General and Educational Psychology, National Pedagogical Academy of Science of USSR. He also is Academician of the International Academy of Human Problems in Aviation and Astronautics in Russia and Honorary Doctorate in Science, Ukrainian State University. For his achievements in psychology he has been awarded the Medal of the Ukrainian National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. He is the author of five original scholarly books, the latest of which were published in USA. The first one was co-authors with Dr David Meister in the US in 1997. This book published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. The second book was co-authored with Dr. Karwowski in the US in 2007. This book published by Taylor and Francis Group. He also is the co-editor of two books published by Taylor and Francis Group in 2008 and 2011. He was invited editor of journal Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, V-5, #3, 2004. In former Soviet Union he worked as Industrial Engineer of Food Processing Machinery Factory, Industrial Psychologist in Industrial Research and Consulting Institute. After receiving his doctorate degrees he worked as associate and then full professor in Construction Engineering State University, in Marines Postgraduate School (part time), Pedagogical University in Odessa, Ukraine. He is author of different textbooks for universities in former Soviet Union. Dr Bedny has been conducting research on general and systemic-structural activity theory for the past 25 years. Systemic-structural activity theory is high level generality theory from which derived unified and standardize m Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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