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Ergonomics aims to design appliances, technical systems and tasks in such a way as to improve human safety, health, comfort and performance. It developed into a recognized field during the Second World War, when for the first time, technology and the human sciences were systematically applied in a coordinated manner. Physiologists, psychologists, anthropologists, medical doctors, work scientists... Read more
VOLUME III PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS AND MODELS IN ERGONOMICS Introduction to Volume III PART 1 Perception and signal detection 1 ROC analysis applied to the evaluation of medical imaging techniques 2 Human and machine performance in an inspection task PART 2 Attention 3 The human operator as a monitor and controller of multi-degree of freedom systems 4 Eye movements of aircraft pilots during instrument-landing approaches 5 The role of auditory localization in attention and memory span 6 Retrospect and prospect 7 Multiple resources and performance prediction PART 3 Limitations of memory 8 The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information PART 4 Vigilance and fatigue 9 The breakdown of vigilance during prolonged visual search 10 The role of laboratory experiment in the study of pilot error 11 Toward a theory of situation awareness in dynamic systems PART 5 Decision making 12 Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases 13 Recognition-primed decisions PART 6 Mental models 14 Models of mental models: an ergonomist–psychologist dialogue 15 Skills, rules, and knowledge: signals, signs, and symbols, and other distinctions in human performance models 16 Outlines of a hybrid model of the process plant operator 17 Perspectives on human performance modelling 18 The model human processor: an engineering model of human performance 19 Project Ernestine: validating a GOMS analysis for predicting and explaining real-world task performance 20 Models of models of . . . mental models, Index.
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Neville Moray
