Emerging Needs and Opportunities for Human Factors Research

Emerging Needs and Opportunities for Human Factors Research

  • Autor: Nickerson, Raymond S.
  • Editor: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309052764
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309520577
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309176361
  • Lloc de publicació:  United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 1995
  • Mes: Setembre
  • Pàgines: 334
  • Idioma: Anglés

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.

  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • PART I Summary Report
  • Emerging Needs and Opportunities for Human Factors Research
  • PART II Background Papers
  • 1 Productivity in Organizations
  • 2 Training and Education
  • 3 Employment and Disabilities
  • 4 Health Care
  • 5 Environmental Change
  • 6 Communication Technology and Telenetworking
  • 7 Information Access and Usability
  • 8 Emerging Technologies in Work Design
  • 9 Transportation
  • 10 Cognitive Performance Under Stress
  • 11 Aiding Intellectual Work