Human Factors in Aviation (Cognition and Perception) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0127500316 ISBN 13: 9780127500317

Publisher: Academic Press, 2014

Synopsis

Human Factors in Aviation, written for the widespread aviation community--engineers, scientist, pilots, managers, government personnel, and others--is also be of interest to those in nonaviation fields. The authors/contributors were chosen not only as experts in their fields, but because they could write for a wider audience than they customarily address. The organization of the book takes the reader from the general to the specific, first covering broad issues, then the more specific topics of pilot performance, human factors in aircraft design, and vehicles and systems. The physiological and medical aspects are well documented also.

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Review:

"The importance of an academic, scientifically rigorous and above all, current treatise in this field is underscored by the numbing frequency with which human factors/crew error are cited a s culprits in aviation accidents....This book is by far the most authoritative resource in human factors to be published in many years. It is a successful attempt to define the scientific issues underlying this vitally important field of study and provides a framework to understand future endeavors." -- Donald E. Hudson, M.D., ALPA Associate Aeromedical Adviros in AIR LINE PILOT

About the Author:

Earl L. Wiener is a professor of management science and industrial engineering at the University of Miami. He received his B.A. in psychology from Duke University and his Ph.D. in psychology and industrial engineering from Ohio State University. He served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army and is rated in fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. He has conducted research in the areas of human vigilance, automobile and aviation safety, and accidents occurring to the elderly. Since 1979 he has been active in the aeronautics and cockpit automation research of NASA's Ames Research Center. Dr. Wiener is a fellow of the Human Factors Society and the American Psychological Association. David C. Nagel is the chief of the Aerospace Human Factors Research Division at NASA's Ames Research Center. The division is responsible for conducting a broad spectrum of research in the areas of human performance and aeronautical and space human factors. Areas studied include individual and group performance, human-computer interaction, supervisory control, interface designs for autonomous systems, computational human engineering methods, and advanced space suits and portable life-support systems. Dr. Nagel has undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering and a Ph.D. in perception and mathematical psychology, all from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0127500316
• ISBN 13: 9780127500317
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 708
• Editor: Wiener Earl L.