| Workload Transition: Implications for Individual and Team Performance |
93 |
301 pages |
| Authors:
Beverly M. Huey; Christopher D. Wickens; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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 | The work of this study was performed by a small group of experts from key areas in workload, training, vigilance, circadian rhythms and performance effects of sleep loss and fatigue, cognitive switching, situation awareness, and crew communication and coordination. |
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| Human Factors Specialists' Education and Utilization Results of a Survey |
92 |
134 pages |
| Authors:
Harold P. Van Cott; Beverly M. Huey; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| Basic Research in Human Factors |
JUL 90 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Harold Van Cott; Elizabeth Neilsen; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| This report outlines the purpose, membership, and recent activities of the Committee of Human Factors. It summarizes current studies in the areas of human performance models, multicolored displays, distributed decision making, expert systems, and aging. The report also discusses reports from 1984 through 1988 that represent the areas listed above. Keywords: Human performance, Modeling, Mental models, Expert systems, Decision making. (sdw) |
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| Distributed Decision Making: Report of a Workshop |
90 |
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| Authors:
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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 | The distribution of information, authority, personnel, and resources is part of the reality facing military units, companies with dispersed sales forces, forest fire fighters, diplomatic services, and negotiating teams. In addition to daunting logistics and other technical problems, these organizations face fundamental difficulties in making and coordinating decisions that will serve the interests of both the organization as a whole and the individuals within it. Part of this problem is ... |
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| Basic Research in Human Factors |
JUN 87 |
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| Authors:
Stanley Deutsch; Elizabeth F. Neilsen; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| Six studies are in various stages of completion in the CORE program of the Committee on Human Factors. Preliminary drafts of reports on integrated ergonomic modeling, human performance models, mental models, and multicolored displays have been prepared and are currently in the prepublication review process. In addition, reports of the workshop on distributed decision making and the seminar on expert systems, both convened in late 1986, are being drafted. The ... |
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| Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Washington, DC in 1987 |
Jan 1987 |
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| Authors:
Thomas B Sheridan; Dana S Kruser; Stanley Deutsch; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| A steering group formed by the Committee on Human Factors was charged to identify the types of human factors research that, if funded and begun immediately, would be likely to produce results applicable to the evolutionary design of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration national space station to be launched in the 1990s. The steering group was instructed to consider human factors research relevant to such future space systems as ... |
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| Human Factors Aspects of Simulation: Report of the Working Group on Simulation |
SEP 85 |
163 pages |
| Authors:
E. R. Jones; R. T. Hennessy; S. Deutsch; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| The increasing importance and pervasiveness of simulation are due to several factors including cost and time savings that can be realized in system design and training, the ability to reproduce and examine situations that would be unsafe using actual equipment, the control and measurement of human-machine performance in a benign environment, and the capability to investigate conditions that would be impractical to arrange otherwise. Shortcomings in the use of current ... |
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| Methods for Designing Software to Fit Human Needs and Capabilities: Proceedings of the Workshop on Software Human Factors |
MAY 85 |
46 pages |
| Authors:
N. S. Anderson; J. R. Olson; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| This report is put out by The Committee on Human Factors in the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education sponsored jointly by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, the Office of Naval Research, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. This report covers software human factors. Computers are pervasive in civilian and military ... |
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| Human Engineering Guide to Equipment Design (HEGED). Revision |
MAR 85 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| At the request of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Human Factors Engineering, sponsored by the Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Steering Group, the Committee on Human Factors in the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council prepared recommendations on content revision and alternate delivery systems for the Human Engineering Guide to Equipment Design (HEGED). Keywords: Human engineering, Handbook, and Design guide. |
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| Recommendations for Content Revision and Alternate Delivery Modes for the Human Engineering Guide to Equipment Design (HEGED) |
MAR 85 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| As its meeting on October 4-6, 1983, the Department of Defense Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Group (HFE-TAG) recommended that the National Research Council consider the need for and an approach to revising the Human Engineering Guide to Equipment Design (HEGED). At the November 1983 meeting of the Committee on Human Factors, the Air Force representative of HFE- TAG requested the committee's advice on whether a revision of the Guide ... |
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| Research Issues in Simulator Sickness: Proceedings of a Workshop |
OCT 1984 |
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| Authors:
Michael E. McCauley; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| Simulator sickness, with symptoms similar to motion sickness, occurs frequently in military and civilian flight trainers. Simulator sickness appears to be independent of whether a fixed base or moving base simulator is used. Methods for amelioration are described as well as recommendations for future research to develop countermeasures. Originator supplied keywords include: Motion sickness, Sensory conflict, Human factors research, Vestibular, and Vision. |
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| Research and Modeling of Supervisory Control Behavior. Report of a Workshop |
84 |
81 pages |
| Authors:
T. B. Sheridan; R. T. Hennessy; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| This report of a workshop on Supervisory Control was compiled under the Review of the National Research Council. Supervisory control is the human activity involved in initiating, monitoring, and adjusting processes in systems that are otherwise automatically controlled. The two-day workshop covered three major themes: (1) concepts and characteristics of supervisory control systems, (2) the choice of appropriate research vehicles, and (3) the interchange between researchers and designers. Summary conclusions ... |
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| Research Needs for Human Factors |
19 JAN 1983 |
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| Authors:
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| System design and the world of work are undergoing profound changes. In a period when automation is replacing the need for finely tuned perceptual- motor activities by skilled operators, human productivity is no longer easily assessed in terms of unit output. New systems place increased demands on the cognitive and decision-making aspects of human performance. The role of people in systems is shifting to those of monitoring and directing otherwise ... |
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| Research Needs for Human Factors |
JAN 1983 |
219 pages |
| Authors:
Richard W. Pew; Nancy S. Anderson; Alphonse Chapanis; Baruch Fischhoff; Irwin L. Goldstein; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| This report describes basic research needed to improve the scientific basis of applied human factors work. Six topical areas are covered; human decision making; eliciting information from experts; user-computer interaction; supervisory control systems; population group differences; and applied methods. (Author) |
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| 3-D Displays Perceptual Research and Applications to Military Systems |
30 SEP 1982 |
198 pages |
| Authors:
David J. Getty; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| This report contains the edited proceedings of a symposium on the design and applications of three-dimensional displays. The symposium was held at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C. on January 29, 1982. The symposium contained three parts. The first consisted of a series of five papers that discussed basic perceptual research on, and relating to, the design and use of three-dimensional displays. The second part of the ... |
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| Activities of the Committee on Human Factors: October 1, 1980 - September 30, 1981 |
30 NOV 1981 |
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| Authors:
Robert T. Hennessy; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC COMMITTEE ON HUMAN FACTORS
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| The Committee on Human Factors was established and held its first meeting in December 1980. The three principal accomplishments of the committee during the reporting period were: (a) identifying critical problems in human factors and formulating preliminary statements defining the nature of these problems and the basic research needed to alleviate these problems; (b) establishing membership and guidelines for a special working group on simulation; and (c) planning the conduct ... |
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