Looking Ahead : Human Factors Challenges in a Changing World

Nickerson, Raymond S.

ISBN 10: 0805811516 / ISBN 13: 9780805811513

Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Incorporated, Mahwah, NJ, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Looking Ahead : Human Factors Challenges in a Changing World
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Incorporated, Mahwah, NJ
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805811516
• ISBN 13: 9780805811513
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • International Studies/Terrorism

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Synopsis

This volume aims to review some of the recent developments and trends that seem especially relevant to any attempt to understand near-term-future possibilities; to consider what a variety of knowledgeable people are saying about changes and developments that could occur; and to relate the possibilities to needs and opportunities for human factors research. Human factors, in this case, includes not only the implications of human capabilities and limitations for the design of equipment and machines intended for human use, but also applied psychology in a more general sense. In particular, it is taken to involve social systems as well as physical ones, the interaction of people with the environment as well as with machines, the facilitation of communication between people as well as between people and computers, and the design of policies and procedures as well as the design of equipment.

The author's intention is to focus on anticipated problems -- including opportunities as well as difficulties -- and ask how human factors research might contribute to solutions. It is assumed that there are ways in which such research could be useful in addressing societal problems that the profession has not yet realized and that these are more likely to be recognized in the future if the community is actively seeking to identify them.

About the Author

Raymond S. Nickerson