Job Design, Product Design and Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 4

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Fifty-six papers cover job design and analysis, human-computer interaction, applied psychology, and product design and analysis. Among the topics are developing a framework for analyzing human error and disturbance occurrence in manufacturing systems, testing Belbin's team role theory of effective group functioning, cognitive ergonomics in designing and evaluating web and other computing systems, the role of goals in shaping user interactions with speech systems, strategy choice when being mentally fatigued, and evaluating the usability of personal security codes based on portraits of human faces. No index is provided. The Proceedings are split between volumes three and four of the series. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)