Evaluation of rail technology: a practical human factors guide

✍ Scribed by Bearman, Chris

• Publisher: Ashgate
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Series: Human factors in road and rail transport
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Currently, the rail industry lacks a standardized approach to the human factors evaluation of new technologies in operational settings. While a number of human factors evaluation methods exist (such as task analysis, situation awareness measures, quasi-experiments), these are rarely tailored to the industry's needs. This book fills that gap by developing a toolkit of methods that can be used by people in the rail industry to evaluate the human factors implications of new technologies"--Provided by publisher. Read more...

Abstract:

Currently, the rail industry lacks a standardized approach to the human factors evaluation of new technologies in operational settings. While a number of human factors evaluation methods exist (such as task analysis, situation awareness measures, quasi-experiments), these are rarely tailored to the industry's needs. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: The Promise and Perils of New Technology / Drew Dawson, Chris Bearman, Anjum Naweed and Gareth Hughes --
Key Technology-Related Human Factors Issues / Chris Bearman --
Resistence to Technology / Janette Rose and Chris Bearman --
Effective User Feedback : the Practical Value of Mock-Ups / Gareth Hughes, Airdrie Long, Anne Maddock and Chris Bearman --
Qualitative Research Rules, Using Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods to Acknowledge the Human Dimensions of Technology / Kirrilly Thompson --
Future Inquiry: a Participatory Ergonomics Approach to Evaluating New Technology / Verna Blewitt and Andrea Shaw --
Using Task Analysis to Inform the Development and Evaluation of New Technologies / Janette Rose, Chris Bearman and Anjum Naweed --
Evaluating Your Train Simulator Part I: The Physical Environment / Anjum Naweed, Ganesh Balakrishnan and Jillian Dorrian --
Evaluating Your Train Simulator Part II: the Task Environment / Jillian Dorrian and Anjum Naweed --
Applying the Theories and Measures of Situation Awareness to the Rail Industry / Janette Rose, Chris Bearman and Anne Maddock.

✦ Subjects

Railroads;Management;Technological innovations.;Railroads;Technological innovations;Evaluation.;Railroads;Safety measures.;Human engineering.;Information technology;Psychological aspects.;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING;Engineering (General)