The psychology of human-computer interaction: S.K. Card, T.P. Moran and A. Newell Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, London, pp 469 + xiii, £27.50 (hardback)
✍ Scribed by Yvonne Rogers
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 346 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-6870
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✦ Synopsis
Human Factors in Manufacturing is the report, edited by Prof T. Lupton, of a conference held in London in April 1984. Some 35 papers were presented, covering primarily the areas of work organisation, industrial relations and quality of working life issues; only two or three considered more classical ergonomics matters. As with any conference report, the level of papers varied. The aim appears to have been to inform an industrial audience, hence many papers provided straightforward reviews which did not necessarily discuss current research matters.
Selected readings from these Proceedings should be of value to industrial people to understand some of the wide ranging work now going on into the creation of better working situations as a result of new technologies in manufacture. There are many case studies, from continental Europe, including Scandinavia, as well as Britain, and these illustrate such problems as introducing new technologies, integrating robots and people, designing jobs within highly automated plants, skill changes with CAD, and other aspects of computer aided manufacture.
Students, and those lecturers teaching general industrial ergonomics, will also find it a useful source of general information on some of the many areas of activity where ergonomics impinges on the industrial world. The specialist may well fiid the approach too general, with the few research papers requiring digging out from the rest.