Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics

Don Harris, Cranfield University, UK

Contents: Job Design and analysis: Modelling and simulation of human behaviour in process control: needs, perspectives and applications; Development of a framework for analysis of human error and disturbance occurrence in manufacturing systems; A systems analysis of team working in human supervisory control; Planning complex projects in organizations involves situated cognition; Studying the work of schedulers: how do they work, how can we know?; Estimating production potentials: expert bias in applied decision making; Testing Belbin’s team role theory of effective group functioning: do mixed teams perform better than shaper teams?; Assessing the effects of location, media and task type on team performance; On the structure of working behaviour; Mental fatigue and task performance. Human-Computer Interaction: Cognitive ergonomics in the design and evaluation of web and other computing systems; Designing the paramedic protocol and patient reporting computer (P3CO); Haptic augmentation of virtual reality; The sensory conflict adaptation measure (SCAM): a tool for VE effects prediction and performance measurement; Readability of computer displays as a function of colour, saturation and background texture; A fast and easy psycho-physical procedure to adjust luminance and achromatic contrast in conventional video display terminals (VDT); Perspectives on a study of user understanding and perception of multimedia video; Individual and group commitment to computer mediated decisions; Psychological type and cognitive style as antecedents of computer attitudes; Design of user interfaces for non-European markets: a study of global demands; Finding out what users really think: using cognitive modelling to improve icon design; The Athena HCI assessment suite; Exploring the space of cognitive architectures: evaluating applications in HCI; BUILD-IT: a brick-based tool for direct interaction; Support of fault diagnosis during supervisory control by means of interface design. Appl