Bøger i Advances in Human Performance and Cognitive Engineering Research serien

Explores cultural influences in relation to concerns of ergonomics and human factors. These include scientific-philosophical considerations, aircraft and maritime safety, cross-national training, effective use of the world-wide web, multinational decision making, third-world industrial development, implementation of technology transfer, and more.

Simulations are often used in the military and other performance-critical fields (law enforcement, aviation) to assess readiness, to support training, management, and decision making and to conduct mission rehearsal. This volume documents the state of the possible individual and small unit human performance research and simulation.

This text explores some of the key human performance issues facing organizations as they implement or manage automated systems, it deals with a range of topics, such as how to design optional use, avoiding misuse and creating training strategies for automated systems.

Highlights the pressing human factor issues that are associated with remotely operated vehicles. This book showcases some of the human-oriented research and design that speaks to these issues. It discusses the human components of the 'unmanned' system.

Aims to increase our understanding of adaptability within complex environments by integrating the work done by experts in the field. This book also presents work on the importance of cultural adaptability, visualization requirements, measurement approaches, training strategies, and selection for adaptive performance.

This volume launches a series that will focus on providing chapters that advance our understanding of human performance in organizational systems as cognitive engineering principles are applied. It includes a historical review of a cognitive engineering research at a national laboratory.

The information society and associated technologies have become a key component of modern life. They touch almost every aspect of the working environment. These essays explore how everything, from personnel management to virtual work teams, is affected by information technology.