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Usability Evaluation for In-Vehicle Systems
This book presents a process which will support the evaluation and modeling of driver-interface interactions in a dual-task driving context. This process consists of a framework of methods which can be used to evaluate and model the usability of In-Vehicle information Systems (IVIS). The book’s...
To Be Published April 25th 2013 by CRC Press
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Advances in Human Aspects of Road and Rail Transportation
Series: Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics Series
Human factors and ergonomics have made considerable contributions to the research, design, development, operation and analysis of transportation systems and their complementary infrastructure. This volume focuses on the causations of road accidents, the function and design of roads and signs, the...
Published July 16th 2012 by CRC Press
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Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design, 2 Volume Set
Series: Ergonomics Design & Mgmt. Theory & Applications
Every day we interact with thousands of consumer products. We not only expect them to perform their functions safely, reliably, and efficiently, but also to do it so seamlessly that we don’t even think about it. However, with the many factors involved in consumer product design, from the...
Published June 21st 2011 by CRC Press
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Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design
Methods and Techniques
Series: Handbook of Human Factors in Consumer Product Design
Every day we interact with thousands of consumer products. We not only expect them to perform their functions safely, reliably, and efficiently, but also to do it so seamlessly that we don’t even think about it. However, with the many factors involved in consumer product design, from the...
Published June 21st 2011 by CRC Press
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Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design
Uses and Applications
Series: Handbook of Human Factors in Consumer Product Design
Every day we interact with thousands of consumer products. We not only expect them to perform their functions safely, reliably, and efficiently, but also to do it so seamlessly that we don’t even think about it. However, with the many factors involved in consumer product design, from the...
Published June 21st 2011 by CRC Press
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Human Factors Methods and Sports Science
A Practical Guide
During the course of any sporting event, critical cognitive and physical tasks are performed within a dynamic, complex, collaborative system comprising multiple humans and artifacts, under pressurized, complex, and rapidly changing conditions. Highly skilled, well-trained individuals walk a fine...
Published December 8th 2009 by CRC Press
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Human Factors in the Design and Evaluation of Central Control Room Operations
Whether used for aviation, manufacturing, oil and gas extraction, energy distribution, nuclear or fossil fuel power generation, surveillance or security, all control rooms share two common features. The people operating them are often remote from the processes that they are monitoring and...
Published November 17th 2009 by CRC Press
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Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods
Research suggests that ergonomists tend to restrict themselves to two or three of their favorite methods in the design of systems, despite a multitude of variations in the problems that they face. Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods delivers an authoritative and practical account of methods that...
Published August 29th 2004 by CRC Press
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The Handbook of Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction
A comprehensive review of the current state of research and use of task analysis for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), this multi-authored and diligently edited handbook offers the best reference source available on this diverse subject whose foundations date to the turn of the last century. Each...
Published August 31st 2003 by CRC Press
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Ubiquitous Computing
Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere?:a Special Issue of the international Journal of Human-computer Interaction
This special issue draws together some of the contemporary research and development of ubiquitous computing, most of which was foretold by Licklider (1960) and Weiser (1991). Computers are ubiquitous--in terms that they are everywhere--but does this mean the same as ubiquitous computing? The...
Published October 31st 2001 by CRC Press