Ergonomics and Human Factors: Recent Research - Brossura

Joel S. Warm, Leonard S. Mark

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ISBN 10: 0387965114 ISBN 13: 9780387965116

Casa editrice: Springer New York, 1987

Riassunto

Atrium II, Cincinnati, OH 45202 Artificial intelligence (AI) programs represent knowledge in a fashion similar to human knowledge and the activities of an AI system are closer to human behavior than that of traditional systems.

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Contenuti

Editors’ Introduction: An Overview of Ergonomics and Human Factors.- I. Human Information Processing.- 1. Overview Paper: Vigilance: Taxonomy and Utility.- 2. Event Asychrony and Task Demands in Sustained Attention.- 3. Overview Paper: Perception and Control of Self-Motion: Implications for Visual Simulation of Vehicular Locomotion.- 4. Overview Paper: An Overview of Cognitive Psychology.- 5. Error Factors in Recognition Memory.- 6. Visual Motion Processing and Display Design.- 7. Overview Paper: Skill Learning and Human Factors.- 8. The Speed and Accuracy of Movements as a Function of Constraints to Action.- 9. Topological Characteristics in the Acquisition of Coordination.- 10. Augmented Information Feedback and Task Constraints.- 11. Whole-Task and Part-Task Training in Dual Motor Tasks.- 12. Overview Paper: Consistent Mapping, Invariants and the Training of Perceptual-Motor Skills.- II. Fitting the Environment to the Person.- 13. Overview Paper: Falls in the Elderly: The Need for New Research.- 14. A Questionnaire Survey to Assess Rating of Physical Workplace Conditions, Somatic Discomfort and Work Efficiency Among VDT Users.- 15. Overview Paper: Health, Stress, and Workload In an Era of Workplace Change.- 16. Arousal Theory, Stress, and Performance: Problems of Incorporating Energetic Aspects of Behavior into Human-Machine Systems Function.- 17. Overview Paper: An Overview of Safety Engineering in Human Factors.- 18. Cognitive Aspects of Hazard Warning Labels.- 19. Application of Poisson Regression to the Injury Experience of Shiftworkers.- 20. An Examination of the Recovery Value of Various Restbreak Durations for an Analytical Task.- 21. Prediction of Blood Alcohol Concentration in Humans: Comments and Criticisms.- III. Human-Computer Interaction.- 22. Overview Paper: Human-Computer Interaction: A Brief Glimpse of an Emerging Field.- 23. Individual Differences in Computer-Based Information Retrieval.- 24. I’ll Break Something and You Tell Me What Went Wrong: Methods for Evaluating the User Interface in Network Problem Determination Software.- 25. Objections to Objects: Limitations of Human Performance in the Use of Iconic Graphics.- 26. Overview Paper: Office Systems Documentation.- 27. Methods and Procedures in an On-Line System: A Proposed Solution.- 28. A Critical Incident Evaluation Tool for Software Documentation.- 29. Page Format and User Understanding of Command Language Computer Manuals.- 30. Overview Paper: Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction and Applications to the Human-Computer Interface.- 31. Natural Languages and Their Commercial Applications.- IV: An Assessment of the Human Factors Enterprise.- 32. Plenary Address: The Human Factors Technologies: Past Promises, Future Issues.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387965114
• ISBN 13: 9780387965116
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 300
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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