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ACM Press
2004
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by Manoj S. Patankar, James C. Taylor
September 30, 2004
Patankar (aviation science, St. Louis U.) and Taylor (a consultant in California) offer a how-to companion to their work Risk Management and Error Reduction in Aviation Maintenance (2004). Writing for aviation mechanics, aircraft maintenance engineers, maintenance managers, regulators, and aviation students, they use data from the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System to illustrate how human-factors principles and error-reduction techniques can be applied to minimize error-inducing conditions and reduce the impact of past errors.
by Patrick W. Jordan
February 1999
Introduction to the topic of usability. Throughout the book examples are drawn from the familiar field of human-computer interaction, and more broadly from the world of consumer goods. This book does a great job of teaching usability to people who are not familiar with the topic. The book is 120 pages long and a quick read.
Irene M. A. Henley
February 1, 2004
Eleven educators from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S. contribute 15 chapters to a resource text for practitioners who teach and assess adult learners in aviation programs in colleges and universities and within all the various segments of the aviation industry. Coverage includes the major theories of learning and adult learning principles; learning strategies that enhance task accomplishment, and factors hampering or facilitating student progress; and practical applications of the theories and principles in a range of teaching strategies for all types of aviation professionals--pilots, flight attendants, air traffic controllers, maintenance engineers, administrative and management personnel.
by Stephen Pheasant
November 1, 1996
A primary text for a design course, first published about ten years ago and revised just before Pheasant's (1949-96) death. After introducing ergonomics and anthropometrics, offers advice and details on workspaces, sitting and seating, hands and handles, the office, at home, health and safety. Fifty pages of tables provide data on human diversity and anthropometric data. Well illustrated, mostly with drawing and diagrams, but also with a few photographs.
by Karen Donoghue, Michael Schrage
February 12, 2002
User experience is a new field that marries business strategy, technology, design and usability into the development of electronically-mediated customer experiences. The field is becoming increasingly important. Despite the recent collapse in the technology market, user experiences continue to impact success for businesses that deliver their products and services online. As more "dotcoms" fail, firms such as Amazon.com and Yahoo! that practice customer-centric design continue to prove that they have an edge that creates business value. The quality of the user experience will become even more critical to business success over the next years. With no seminal books available and no well-established methodologies, the industry needs a book that will deliver strategies for business-relevant, user-centric design, written in a tone for executives, managers and practitioners who need the knowledge, but don't have the time to read a dense, heavy tome. Based on the author's work as a MIT Media Lab-trained user experience strategist (and 14-year industry veteran) with many global Fortune 1000 firms and dotcoms, Built for Use will help readers rapidly become fluent in the language and best practices of user experience strategy and design.
by Donald A. Norman
September 17, 2002
Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans--from physical objects to computer programs to conceptual tools--must read this book, and it is an equally tremendous read for anyone who has to use anything created by another human. It could forever change how you experience and interact with your physical surroundings, open your eyes to the perversity of bad design and the desirability of good design, and raise your expectations about how things should be designed.
by Arthur D. Fisk, Wendy A. Rogers, Neil Charness, Sara J. Czaja, Joseph Sharit
March 1, 2004
Considering the subject primarily from an engineering psychology perspective, Fisk (engineering psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology) provides a practical introduction to human factors and the older adult. He shows how current understanding of age-related issues of perception, cognition, and movement control can be applied in practice, and offers guidelines and advice for design issues ranging from lighting and web site design to training program development and design of work tasks. The audience for the book includes product designers, health care practitioners, and managers.
by Beverly Norris, John R. Wilson
January 15, 2005
Designing for Safety covers the basic issues of current consumer safety, ergonomics and consumer product design, and key methods and techniques for incorporating ergonomics into the design process. A series of case studies are presented to illustrate these methods. The steps to be followed in a typical evaluation process are set out, along with the methods that can be used, providing a tool for those wishing to evaluate the ergonomics and safety aspects during product development. This serves as an introduction for ergonomics and product design and presents a review of hands-on methods. Students of product design will find this a practical and useful textbook.
by Patrick W. Jordan
September 2000
Looks beyond the current usability model of products design to capture a more holistic view of human appreciation for certain products, providing a practical framework of the four pleasures and describing several different design techniques. This book looks at how human factors are being used more and more in the product design process within commercial manufacturing organizations. It shows how designs can appeal to the user holistically, so that products are a joy to use.
by Patrick W. Jordan
December 23, 2003
By the author of The Design of Everyday Things, the first book to make the connection between our emotions and how we relate to ordinary objects-from juicers to Jaguars. Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colorful iMac? New research on emotion and cognition has shown that attractive things really do work better, a fact fans of Don Norman's classic The Design of Everyday Things cannot afford to ignore. In recent years, the design community has focused on making products easier to use. But as Norman amply demonstrates in this fascinating and important new book, design experts have vastly underestimated the role of emotion on our experience of everyday objects. Emotional Design analyzes the profound influence of this deceptively simple idea, from our willingness to spend thousands of dollars on Gucci bags and Rolex watches to the impact of emotion on the everyday objects of tomorrow. In the future, will inanimate objects respond to human emotions? Is it possible to create emotional robots? Norman addresses these provocative questions-drawing on a wealth of examples and the latest scientific insights-in this bold exploration of the objects in our everyday world.
by Kenneth R. Boff, Janet E. Lincoln
June 1, 1988
This is a comprehensive report of multiple studies pertaining to Human Perception and Performance.
by K. H. E. Kroemer, H. J. Kroemer, K. E. Kroemer-Elbert
July 25, 1997
The Third Edition of Kroemer's Engineering Physiology provides information on how the body functions at work, and on how one should design a work environment so that the body can function well. Written for engineers, managers, designers, and safety professionals, concise, comprehensive information is presented in a way that does not require expertise in physiology, biology or medicine. The Third Edition includes expanded and updated coverage of all the topics featured in the previous edition, as well as new illustrations. New information includes a new section on artificial body joints, revised and updated chapters on skeletal muscle, neural muscle control, biomechanics, respiration, circulation, metabolism, the environmental climate, and work schedules/body rhythms.
by B. S. Dhillon
March 1, 2003
New book. No review available at this time.
by K. H. E. Kroemer, H. B. Kroemer, K. E. Kroemer-Elbert
July 11, 2000
An easy-to-use reference book written by a practicing ergonomics engineer, Ergonomics: How to Design for Ease and Efficiency explores the "why" and "how" of human engineering/ergonomics. Topics include Working Under Water, Home Computer Workstation, Data Input Devices, Effective Training for Safe Lifting, Use of Liftbelts. Deals with Space exploration, Work under water, Scuba diving, New ways to communicate with the computer, Avoiding Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and other RSIs, Lift belts in material handling, Designing for "neutral" posture, scheduling work for circadian rhythms and Strenuous efforts at high altitudes. Addresses issues such as cumulative trauma, back problems (lifting), space exploration, design for the handicapped, computer workstations, and others. For readers interested in Human Factors Engineering or Ergonomics.
Turid H. Horgen, Michael L. Joroff, and others.
November, 1998
A Groundbreaking Look at One of the Most Important Issues Facing Businesses Today Often overlooked, yet vital to an organization's overall operations and productivity, how work space is used is becoming an increasingly critical issue for businesses to address. Based on a four-year research project conducted by members of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning's Space Planning and Organization Research Group (SPORG), Excellence by Design examines this important issue. The book explores how the workplace interacts with work practices, introducing proven strategies and providing a sound framework for creating the workplace of the future. Covering a wide range of essential topics, from the interpersonal and political dimensions of workplace making to the art of using tools for workplace and organizational transformation, Excellence by Design introduces the "process architecture" approach to creating workplaces.
by John A., Jr. Caldwell, J. Lynn Caldwell
February 1, 2004
Research psychologists on the Warfighter Fatigue Countermeasures Program of the US Air Force begin by demonstrating the scope of the problem and describing the nature of fatigue. Then they look at causes, including circadian rhythms, sleep, and sleep disorders; and at countermeasures such as sleep optimization, strategies for shift lag and jet lag, and situations involving sleep restriction.
by Joe Langford, Deana McDonagh
February 1, 2003
New book. No review available at this time.
by Carolyn Greenwich
September 1, 1997
Let consultant Carolyn Greenwich show you how to achieve dramatic improvements in productivity--by making work fun for your employees! This book presents easy-to-follow instructions for 155 games, contests, and team-building activities that managers can use to inspire and motivate their employees on the job. Every employee, from salespeople and customer service representatives, to hourly workers and executives, will be happier, more enthusiastic, and more competitive once you apply Greenwich's field-proven techniques.
by Mark A. Ashcraft
November 24, 1997
Mark Ashcraft has written a very accessible and friendly introduction to cognitive psychology in this textbook. This slim volume covers a variety of topics, focusing on memory (as many similar books do) but also including pattern recognition, attention, reasoning, language, and the brain. He writes in an understandable and inviting style, without sacrificing academic detail.
by Pietro C. Cacciabue, Springer, Carlo Cacciabue
September 15, 2004
Human error plays a significant role in many accidents involving safety-critical systems, so it is now a standard requirement in both the US and Europe for Human Factors (HF) to be taken into account in system design and safety assessment. This book will be an essential guide for anyone who uses HF in their everyday work, providing them with consistent and ready-to-use procedures and methods that can be applied to real-life problems. The first part of the book looks at the theoretical framework, methods and techniques necessary when working on a HF-related project, and also generates guidelines for using them in the key areas of design, safety assessment, training and accident investigation. The second part presents four case studies which show the reader how the above framework and guidelines work in practice. The case studies are based on real-life projects carried out by the author for international companies such as the Italian Railway System, the International Civil Aviation Organization, Volvo, Daimler-Chrysler and FIAT.
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