Human-Computer Interaction and Operators' Performance
eBook - ePub

Human-Computer Interaction and Operators' Performance

Optimizing Work Design with Activity Theory

  1. 461 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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 Informatica & Ingegneria industriale. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9781040162330
Topic
Informatica
Subtopic
Ingegneria industriale

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Contributors
  9. Section I Activity Theory in Studying Performance
  10. 1 Introduction to Applied and Systemic-Structural Activity Theory
  11. 2 The Relationship between External and Internal Aspects in Activity Theory and Its Importance in the Study of Human Work
  12. Section II Human–Computer Interaction
  13. 3 Task Concept and Its Major Attributes in Ergonomics and Psychology
  14. 4 Task Concept in Production and Nonproduction Environments
  15. 5 Microgenetic Principles in the Study of Computer-Based Tasks
  16. 6 Abandoned Actions Reveal Design Flaws: An Illustration by a Web-Survey Task
  17. Section III Evaluation of Computer Users’ Psychophysiological Functional State
  18. 7 Optimization of Human–Computer Interaction by Adjusting Psychophysiological State of the Operator
  19. 8 Psychophysiological Analysis of Students’ Functional States during Computer Training
  20. Section IV Work Activity in Aviation
  21. 9 Characteristics of Pilots’ Activity in Emergency Situations Resulting from Technical Failure
  22. 10 Functional Analysis of Pilot Activity: A Method of Investigation of Flight Safety
  23. 11 Methodology for Teaching Flight- Specific English to Nonnative English–SpeakingAir-Traffic Controllers
  24. Section V Special Topics in the Study of Human Work from the Activity Theory Perspective
  25. 12 Functional Analysis of Attention
  26. 13 Real and Potential Structures of Activity and the Interrelationship with Features of Personality
  27. 14 Application of Laser-Based Acupuncture to Improve Operators’ Psychophysiological States
  28. 15 Information Processing and Holistic Learning and Training in an Organization: A Systemic-Structural Activity Theoretical Approach
  29. 16 Effort, Fatigue, Sleepiness, and Attention Networks Activity: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
  30. Index