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Title Human performance and ergonomics / edited by P.A. Hancock.

Publication Info. San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 397 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Handbook of perception and cognition (2nd ed.
Handbook of perception and cognition (2nd ed.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Engineering psychology and ergonomics / Raymond S. Nickerson -- Cognition in human-machine systems : experiential and environmental aspects of adaptation / Alex Kirlik and Ann M. Bisantz -- Human engineering for quality of life / Seiichiro Namba and Sonoko Kuwano -- Applied decision making / Gary Klein -- Beyond error : the language of coordination and stability / John M. Flach -- Communication aids for people with hearing loss / Harry Levitt -- Developing and evaluating conversational agents / Dominic W. Massaro [and others] -- Aerospace psychology / Christopher D. Wickens -- Expectancy and control : perceptual and cognitive aspects of the driving task / John A. Groeger -- Scaling problems in the design of work spaces for human use / Marvin J. Dainoff, Leonard S. Mark, and Douglas L. Gardner -- Human-computer interaction : the psychology of augmented human behavior / Mark Chignell, Peter A. Hancock, and Harumi Takeshita -- Human performance in multi-operator systems / Carol R. Paris, Eduardo Salas, and Janis A. Cannon-Bowers.
Summary Human Performance and Ergonomics brings together a comprehensive and modern account of how the context of performance is crucial to understanding behavior. Environment provides both constraints and opportunities to individuals, such that external conditions may have reciprocal or interactive effects on behavior. The book begins with an account of research in human factors and engineering, with application of research to real world environments, methodological concerns, and rumination on current and future trends. The book proceeds to how technology has moved from being designed to help human p.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Cognitive psychology.
Cognitive psychology.
Human-machine systems.
Human-machine systems.
Human engineering -- Psychological aspects.
Human engineering.
Psychological aspects.
Man-Machine Systems.
Behavior.
Cognition.
Ergonomics.
Psychology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Bilişsel psikoloji.
İnsan-makine sistemleri.
İnsan mühendisliği.
Added Author Hancock, Peter A., 1953-
Other Form: Print version: Human performance and ergonomics. San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, ©1999 9780123227355 (DLC) 99060088 (OCoLC)41158420
ISBN 9780080534213 (electronic book)
008053421X (electronic book)
1281046507
9781281046505
9780123227355
0123227356