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Author : National Research Council Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 141 pages File Size : 20,28 MB Release : 1992-02-01 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : 0309046939
Does the education given by the nation's human factors graduate training programs meet the skill and knowledge needs of today's employers? Can the supply of trained human factors specialists be expected to keep pace with the demand? What are the characteristics, employment settings, gender distribution, and salaries of human factors specialists? These and other questions were posed by the committee as it designed mail-in and computer-aided telephone surveys used to query human factors specialists. The committee evaluates its findings and makes recommendations aimed at strengthening the profession of human factors. This book will be useful to educators as an aid in evaluating their graduate training curricula, employers in working with graduate programs and enhancing staff opportunities for continuing education, and professionals in assessing their status in relation to their colleagues.
This book is a collection of contemporary applications of psychological insights into practical human factors issues. The topics are arranged largely according to an information processing/energetic approach to human behavior. Consideration is also given to human-computer interaction and organizational design.
The purpose of the paper is to review some of the data problems the analyst must deal with in his work and to suggest some possible remedies. A review of the task analysis procedures is followed by a discussion of the uses of task analysis in system development programs. Problems connected with each were used to generate the goals of a research program, which is directed toward the development of computerized techniques to assist the analyst make better use of available data.
Advances in Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022), July 24–28, 2022, New York, USA
Author : National Research Council Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 334 pages File Size : 25,12 MB Release : 1995-10-15 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : 0309052769
This book identifies areas that represent new needs and opportunities for human factors research in the coming decades. It is forward-looking, problem oriented, and selectively focused on national or global problems, including productivity in organizations, education and training, employment and disabilities, health care, and environmental change; technology issues, including communications technology and telenetworking, information access and usability, emerging technologies, automation, and flexible manufacturing, and advanced transportation systems; and human performance, including cognitive performance under stress and aiding intellectual work.
Author : National Research Council Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 202 pages File Size : 48,37 MB Release : 2011-06-22 Category : Medical ISBN : 0309212405
In the United States, health care devices, technologies, and practices are rapidly moving into the home. The factors driving this migration include the costs of health care, the growing numbers of older adults, the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions and diseases and improved survival rates for people with those conditions and diseases, and a wide range of technological innovations. The health care that results varies considerably in its safety, effectiveness, and efficiency, as well as in its quality and cost. Health Care Comes Home reviews the state of current knowledge and practice about many aspects of health care in residential settings and explores the short- and long-term effects of emerging trends and technologies. By evaluating existing systems, the book identifies design problems and imbalances between technological system demands and the capabilities of users. Health Care Comes Home recommends critical steps to improve health care in the home. The book's recommendations cover the regulation of health care technologies, proper training and preparation for people who provide in-home care, and how existing housing can be modified and new accessible housing can be better designed for residential health care. The book also identifies knowledge gaps in the field and how these can be addressed through research and development initiatives. Health Care Comes Home lays the foundation for the integration of human health factors with the design and implementation of home health care devices, technologies, and practices. The book describes ways in which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and federal housing agencies can collaborate to improve the quality of health care at home. It is also a valuable resource for residential health care providers and caregivers.
Human Factors in Practice: Concepts and Applications is written for the practitioner who wishes to learn about human factors (HF) but is more interested in application (applied research) than theory (basic research). Each chapter discusses the application of important human factors theories, principles and concepts, presented at a level that can be easily understood by layman readers with no prior knowledge or formal education in human factors. The book illustrates to the non-HF practitioner the many varied domains in which human factors has been applied as well as serving to showcase current research in these areas. All chapters address the common overarching theme of applying human factors theories, principles and concepts to address real-world problems, and follow a similar structure to ensure consistency across chapters. Standard sections within each chapter include a discussion of the scientific underpinnings, a description of relevant HF methods and guidance on sources of further information, case studies to illustrate application, and a summary of likely future trends. Each chapter concludes with a short list of key terms and definitions to enhance the reader’s understanding of the content. Featuring specialist contributors from a variety of disciplines and cultural backgrounds, the book represents a diverse range of perspectives on human factors and will appeal to a broad international audience. It is consciously not a classroom textbook but rather intended to be read at the workplace by non-HF practitioners, and written specifically with their needs in mind. Reading this book will give all practitioners a solid grounding in modern human factors and its application in real-world situations.
This book focuses on the importance of human factors in optimizing the learning and training process. It reports on the latest research and best practices and discusses key principles of behavioral and cognitive science, which are extremely relevant to the design of instructional content and new technologies to support mobile and multimedia learning, virtual training and web-based learning, among others, as well as performance measurements, social and adaptive learning and many other types of educational technologies, with a special emphasis on those important in the corporate, higher education, and military training contexts. Based on the AHFE 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences, held July 17–21, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, the book offers a timely perspective on the role of human factors in education. It highlights important new ideas and will foster new discussions on how to optimally design learning experiences.
Within recent years we have come to hear a great deal about systems; business systems, weapon systems, data-processing systems, manufacturing systems, transportation systems, and communication systems are but a few. Each involves the control, handling, processing, or sensing of materials or information and each involves somewhere in the system a user, an operator, or a maintenance technician. The primary goal of human factors engineering is to help design and develop optimal systems. A human factors program in system design consists of planned activities in three major areas: identification and analysis of human performance requirements, design of equipment and job aids, and development of the personnel subsystem. The human factors program is coordinated with and interacts with development of a system, from preliminary design through the end of the development cycle. Human factors specialists are required to determine the role man should play in the system, help design the equipment he will work with, establish the tasks he will perform, and improve the environment in which he will live while a part of the system. Personnel requirements must be determined, selection tests devised and validated, personnel trained, and their proficiency evaluated. To accomplish this requires a broad interdisciplinary fraternity of specialists all concerned in one way or another with man: anthropologists, psychologists, physiologists, equipment designers, educators, and even administrators. Each contributes scientific knowledge of human behavior and his own methods of approaching and researching problems. This symposium will concern itself with the contributions made by industry, education, research, and the military to this broad field of human factors in system development, as suggested above. "Contributions" can be construed as meaning those efforts, past, present, or anticipated, carried on by the respective agency (industrial, educational, research, military) which develop and/or advance the science and art of human factors as applied to system development. The objective of the symposium is an attempt at fulfillment of the purpose of the Human Factors Society: "Providing for professional and personal interchange of ideas among workers concerned with human factors, and to promote understanding of the human factors involved in the development and use of systems and devices of all kinds.”
Author : National Research Council Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 322 pages File Size : 42,23 MB Release : 2010-11-14 Category : Medical ISBN : 0309156297
The rapid growth of home health care has raised many unsolved issues and will have consequences that are far too broad for any one group to analyze in their entirety. Yet a major influence on the safety, quality, and effectiveness of home health care will be the set of issues encompassed by the field of human factors research-the discipline of applying what is known about human capabilities and limitations to the design of products, processes, systems, and work environments. To address these challenges, the National Research Council began a multidisciplinary study to examine a diverse range of behavioral and human factors issues resulting from the increasing migration of medical devices, technologies, and care practices into the home. Its goal is to lay the groundwork for a thorough integration of human factors research with the design and implementation of home health care devices, technologies, and practices. On October 1 and 2, 2009, a group of human factors and other experts met to consider a diverse range of behavioral and human factors issues associated with the increasing migration of medical devices, technologies, and care practices into the home. This book is a summary of that workshop, representing the culmination of the first phase of the study.