Research Needs for Human Factors

Research Needs for Human Factors

  • Éditeur: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309078672
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309592147
  • Lieu de publication:  United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 1983
  • Mois : Janvier
  • Pages: 172
  • Langue: Anglais
  • 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
      • Development of New Applied Methods
    • SUMMARY
    • REFERENCES
    • APPENDIX SHORT DEFINITIONS OF APPLIED METHODS RECOMMENDED AS SUBJECTS FOR TUTORIAL
      • TASK ANALYSIS
      • SIMULATION
      • TIME LINE ANALYSIS
      • INFORMATION ANALYSIS
      • ACTIVITY ANALYSIS

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