The History of Human Factors and Ergonomics
eBook - ePub

The History of Human Factors and Ergonomics

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The History of Human Factors and Ergonomics

About this book

Human factors/ergonomics (HFE) as a discipline has grown by accretions rather than having been developed systematically and deliberately. Therefore, this book's goal creates a formal conceptual structure for HFE. It is intended as a contribution to cultural history because (a) ours is a technological civilization, and (b) one cannot understand technology outside of the various disciplines that make up that technology. A disciplinary history is highly specialized, but the author maintains that HFE is distinctive in being the only discipline that relates humans to technology. Other behavioral disciplines like anthropology have little connection with technology, and this is what makes HFE important in the present historical era.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. PREFACE
  8. LIST OF ACRONYMS
  9. 1: INTRODUCTION TO HFE
  10. 2: THE CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE OF HFE
  11. 3: THE SYSTEM AS A FUNDAMENTAL CONSTRUCT
  12. 4: THE FORMAL HISTORY OF HFE
  13. 5: THE INFORMAL HISTORY OF HFE
  14. 6: CHARACTERISTICS OF HFE RESEARCH
  15. 7: SPECIAL INTERESTS WITHIN HFE
  16. 8: HFE PRACTICE
  17. 9: A COMMENTARY ON THE BIG ISSUES
  18. REFERENCES
  19. AUTHOR INDEX
  20. SUBJECT INDEX