Human Factors for Engineers.
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : C Sandom; R Harvey
- ناشر : Stevenage : Institution of Engineering and Technology
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2004
- شابک / ISBN : 9781849190800
Description
Contents; Foreword; Preface; Author biographies; Introduction; 1 Human factors and cost benefits; 2 Human factors integration; 3 Humans: skills, capabilities and limitations; 4 The human factors toolkit; 5 Task analysis; 6 Automation and human work; 7 To engineer is to err; 8 Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of human error in risk assessment; 9 Control room design; 10 Human-computer interfaces: a principled approach to design; 11 Usability; 12 HF verification and validation (V & V); 13 The application of simulators in systems evaluation; 14 Safety assessment and human factors; Index.
This volume introduces readers to the subject of human factors and provides practical and pragmatic advice to assist engineers in designing interactive systems that are safer, more secure and easier to use - thereby reducing accidents due to human error, increasing system integrity and enabling more efficient process operations.
