Human-Computer Interaction and Operators' Performance
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Human-Computer Interaction and Operators' Performance

Optimizing Work Design with Activity Theory

  1. 461 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Human-Computer Interaction and Operators' Performance

Optimizing Work Design with Activity Theory

About this book

A collection of works authored by leading scientists from the US and Russia, Human-Computer Interaction and Operators' Performance: Optimizing Work Design with Activity Theory describes applied and systemic-structural activity theory as it is used to study human-computer interaction, aviation, design, and training. Important from a theoretical and

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Yes, you can access Human-Computer Interaction and Operators' Performance by Gregory Z. Bedny,Waldemar Karwowski in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & Human-Computer Interaction. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9781439836279
Edition
1
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Human-Computer Interaction
Index
Computer Science

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Contributors
  5. Section I: Activity Theory in Studying Performance
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction to Applied and Systemic‑Structural Activity Theory
  7. Chapter 2: The Relationship between External andInternal Aspects in Activity Theory and ItsImportance in the Study of Human Work
  8. Section II: Human–Computer Interaction
  9. Chapter 3: Task Concept and Its Major Attributesin Ergonomics and Psychology
  10. Chapter 4: Task Concept in Production and Nonproduction Environments
  11. Chapter 5: Microgenetic Principles in the Study of Computer-Based Tasks
  12. Chapter 6: Abandoned Actions Reveal Design Flaws:An Illustration by a Web-Survey Task
  13. Section III: Evaluation of Computer Users’ Psychophysiological Functional State
  14. Chapter 7: Optimization of Human–ComputerInteraction by Adjusting Psychophysiological State of the Operator
  15. Chapter 8: Psychophysiological Analysis of Students’Functional States during Computer Training
  16. Section IV: Work Activity in Aviation
  17. Chapter 9: Characteristics of Pilots’ Activityin Emergency Situations Resulting from Technical Failure
  18. Chapter 10: Functional Analysis of Pilot Activity: AMethod of Investigation of Flight Safety
  19. Chapter 11: Methodology for Teaching Flight- SpecificEnglish to Nonnative English– Speaking Air-Traffic Controllers
  20. Chapter 12: Functional Analysis of Attention
  21. Chapter 13: Real and Potential Structures ofActivity and the Interrelationship with Features of Personality
  22. Chapter 14: Application of Laser-BasedAcupuncture to Improve Operators’ Psychophysiological States
  23. Chapter 15: Information Processing and HolisticLearning and Training in anOrganization: A Systemic-Structural Activity Theoretical Approach
  24. Chapter 16: Effort, Fatigue, Sleepiness, and AttentionNetworks Activity: A FunctionalMagnetic Resonance Imaging Study
  25. Index
  26. Back cover