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Engineering Psychology and Human Performance (3rd Edition)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.82
EAN: 9780321047113
Edition: 3
ISBN: 0321047117
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 573
Publication Date: October 01, 1999
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
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Editorial Review: This book presents an intuitive understanding of how humans process information in the performance of tasks—highlighting the strengths and limitations, as well as methods, of performance. Equal emphasis is placed on the implications of these strengths and limitations for the design of equipment with which people interact, and for the design and training of work procedures. Chapter topics include spatial displays, language and communications, memory and training, decision making, selection of action, manual control, and stress and human error. Individuals interested in psychology will appreciate this book's reflection on the link between basic research and real-world applications.
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Rating:  - My first Wickens book, and definately not to be my last
As a budding Usability Engineer I have to say that early in my career I had heard about Wickens as he a prof of Human Factors Engineering around the Chicago area (if I am not mistaken about the area). I bought the book when I could find it on sale once, and it's been a prized possession ever since. Of all my books, only one person I've ever allowed to borrow this one.
This book is very dense, everything that the writer puts forth is not only fully explained in detail, but is also backed ... Read More
Rating: - Thorough coverage of research on human factors engineering
Wickens & Hollands cover human factors (which they call engineering psychology in their title) thoroughly in this volume. If you found Donald Norman's "The Psychology of Everyday Things," useful, but want something more in-depth, you may find this academic textbook useful. It covers a great deal of research on several topics critical to software user interface design, such as, attention & perception, spatial displays, memory & training, and decision-making.
Rating: - Good academic book Safety via Psychology
Good academic book on study of human psychology and performance in relation to Safety.
Rating: - A milestone integration of applied pyschology
Wickens' book, though slightly dated, provides an integrative review of applied psychological research that remains without peer. It offers students of engineering and design a solid theoretic pillar for the relevant psychological issues. Paired with an applications-oriented text of similar quality, one has much of the material needed for a graduate-level introduction to human factors engineering.
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