Introduction to Humans in Engineered Systems

✍ Scribed by Roger Remington, Deborah Boehm?Davis, Charles Folk(auth.)

• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fully up-to-date coverage of human factors engineering?plus online access to interactive demonstrations and exercises

Engineering accomplishments can be as spectacular as a moon landing or as mundane as an uneventful drive to the local grocery store. Their failures can be as devastating as a plane crash or a massive oil spill. Over the past decade, psychologists and engineers have made great strides in understanding how humans interact with complex engineered systems?human engineering.

Introduction to Humans in Engineered Systems provides historical context for the discipline and an overview of some of the real-world settings in which human engineering has been successfully applied, including aviation, medicine, computer science, and ground transportation. It presents findings on the nature and variety of human-engineering environments, human capabilities and limitations, and how these factors influence system performance. Important features include:

• Contents organized around the interaction of the human operator with the larger environment to guide the analysis of real-world situations
• A web-based archive of interactive demonstrations, exercises, and links to additional readings and tools applicable to a range of application domains
• Web content customizable for focus on particular areas of study or research

Content:
Chapter 1 Natural and Engineered Systems (pages 7–13):
Chapter 2 Historical Roots (pages 14–36):
Chapter 3 The Current Practice (pages 37–47):
Chapter 4 The Varied Nature of Environments (pages 53–70):
Chapter 5 The Social Context (pages 71–80):
Chapter 6 Analysis Techniques (pages 81–100):
Chapter 7 Determinants of Human Behavior (pages 105–112):
Chapter 8 The Structure of Human Information Processing (pages 113–126):
Chapter 9 Acquiring Information (pages 127–179):
Chapter 10 Central Processing Limitations on Multitasking (pages 181–209):
Chapter 11 Memory (pages 210–235):
Chapter 12 Decision Making (pages 236–266):
Chapter 13 A Case Study in Human?System Performance: The Exxon Valdez (pages 271–283):
Chapter 14 Human Error (pages 284–306):
Chapter 15 Contextual Factors Affecting Human?System Performance (pages 307–338):
Chapter 16 The Role of Automation in Human?System Performance (pages 339–359):
Chapter 17 Supporting Human?System Performance (pages 360–381):