Overview

The papers that make up this book are all derived form the First International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive ergonomics. The papers are generally concerned with human factors in job design and product design. The design of jobs and learning and training focus mainly on medical ergonomics, as it is one of the most rapidly growing areas of ergonomics. The section dealing with applied cognitive pyschology focuses on basic human capabilities rather than user interfaces or operator training. A sound understanding of the manners in which human beings operate are the building blocks upon which sound engineering decisions are based. In the product design and evaluation section, the emphasis is placed firmly on the equipment rather than the human being. The key point is that not only is the job fitted to the person, but the person must also be fitted to the job, this is not an either/or principle.

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Author:   Don Harris ,  Professor Don Harris
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.080kg
ISBN:  

9780291398475

ISBN 10:   0291398472
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   23 October 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Job Design and Analysis: Inventing the future: collaborative design of socio-technical systems; Cafe of Eve: action research in the control room; Applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA): a practitioner’s window into skilled decision making; Job design in integrated mail processing; A systems analysis of team working in control rooms: methodology considered; Models of decision making in emergency management; Emergency decision making on offshore installations; Cognitive processing and risky behaviour in industrial radiography; Modelling of human errors in cognitive processes observed in dynamic environments; Mental models of industrial jobs. Learning and Training: Effects of type of learning on control performance; Learning to control a coal-fired power plant: empirical results and a model; Cognitive technology for knowledge and skill acquisition in engineering disciplines; Dynamic modelling of a learning system to aid system re-engineering; Learning statistics: a high level cognitive skill; Perceptual learning in inspection tasks; The operator’s analysis of the structure of a multi-dimensional video image of a mosaic subject area given the effects of hidden regularities; Target recognition performance following whole-views, part-views, and both-views training. Medical Ergonomics: Depth perception and indirect viewing: reflections on keyhole surgery; Construction and validation of a model for decision making in anaesthesia; Anaesthesiology and aviation: using the analogy; Medical cognition and computer support in the intensive care unit: a cognitive engineering approach; The patient-monitor system in intensive care: eliciting nurses’ mental models. Applied Cognitive Psychology: Audio visual links in attention: implications for interface design; A parallel distributed processing model of redundant information integration; The magical name Miller, plus or minus the umlaut; A partial theory and engineering model of human information-seeking tasks; Mode

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