General & Miscellaneous Engineering, Industrial Design - General & Miscellaneous, Design - Industrial
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Overview
Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design presents more than ninety design and evaluation methods, and is designed to act as an ergonomics methods manual, aiding both students and practitioners. The eleven sections of the book represent the different categories of ergonomics methods and techniques that can be used in the evaluation and design process.Synopsis
Engineers Stanton, Paul M. Salmon, Guy H. Walker, Daniel P. Jenkins (all Brunel U.), and Chris Baber (U. of Birmingham) are with a consortium of defense companies and universities working on a series of defense related projects in conjunction with the British military. They present a range of methods that balance technical and human aspects of equipment procurement, that can be used in system design and evaluation. They are not concerned with specific products. Among the tasks the methods pursue is analyze cognitive work, identifying human error, assessing situation awareness, and predicting performance time. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Details
Published
December 1, 2005
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Pages
592
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780754646617