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Human performance and ergonomics

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
eBook, English, ©1999
Academic Press, San Diego, Calif., ©1999
1 online resource (xxiv, 397 pages) : illustrations
9780080534213, 9781281046505, 008053421X, 1281046507
176008949
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