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Handbook of human factors: G. Salvendy (ED) John Wiley & Sons: New York, 1987, ISBN 0-471-88015-9, pp 1874 + xxiv, £86

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Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
128 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-6870

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✦ Synopsis

The Handbook of human factors is an impressive work with 68 chapters and 103 contributors. Although primarily American, it also has an international flavour with chapters from Germany, Britain, Canada, Japan and Switzerland. It is intended as a reference source for ergonomists, engineers, applied and experimental psychologists, and computer scientists. The editor and advisory board set themselves a challenging task to "represent the entire field of human factors in a single handbook"! No ~'eviewer could attempt to read the whole volume and it would be unfair to single out individual authors without doing so, but the full scope of the book may be seen from the following list of the major sections:

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