Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics

The completely revised edition of the leading reference on human factors and ergonomics. The field of human factors and ergonomics has developed and broadened considerably since its inception more than sixty years ago, and no single book has done more to help proliferate its importance than the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics. Winner of the Institute of Industrial Engineers Joint Publishers 'Book-of-the-Year Award', this thoroughly revised Third Edition of Gavriel Salvendy's seminal work compiles the research of 109 of the world's top thinkers and practitioners into one volume. All new chapters feature theoretically based and practically oriented material-supported by numerous case studies, examples, figures, and tables. This reference will be useful to both practitioners and researchers. Content: Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents •Part I. The Human Factors Function 1. The Discipline of Ergonomics and Human Factors 2. Human Factors Engineering and Systems Design •Part II. The Human Factors Fundamentals 3. Sensation and Perception 4. Selection and Control of Action 5. Information Processing 6. Communication and Human Factors 7. Cultural Ergonomics 8. Decision-Making Models and Decision Support 9. Mental Workload and Situation Awareness 10. Social and Organizational Foundations of Ergonomics 11. Human Factors and Ergonomic Methods 12. Anthropometry 13. Basic Biomechanics and Workstation Design •Part III. Design of Tasks and Jobs 14. Task Analysis: Why, What, and How 15. Task Design and Motivation 16. Job and Team Design 17. Personnel Selection 18. Design, Delivery, and Evaluation of Training Systems 19. Human Factors in Organizational Design and Management 20. Situation Awareness 21. Affective and Pleasurable Design •Part IV. Equipment, Workplace, and Environmental Design 22. Workplace Design 23. Vibration and Motion 24. Sound and Noise 25. Illumination •Part V. Design for Health, Safety, and Comfort 26. Occupational Health and Safety Management 27. Human Error 28. Ergonomics of Work Systems 29. Psychosocial Approach to Occupational Health 30. Manual Materials Handling 31. Work-Related Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders 32. Warnings and Hazard Communications 33. Use of Personal Protective Equipment in the Workplace 34. Human Space Flight 35. Chemical, Dust, Biological, and Electromagnetic Radiation Hazards •Part VI. Performance Modeling 36. Modeling Human Performance in Complex Systems 37. Mathematical Models in Engineering Psychology: Optimizing Performance 38. Supervisory Control 39. Digital Human Modeling for CAE Applications 40. Virtual Environments •Part VII. Evaluation 41. Accident and Incident Investigation 42. Human Factors and Ergonomics Audits 43. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Human Systems Investments 44. Methods of Evaluating Outcomes •Part VIII. Human-Computer Interaction 45. Visual Displays 46. Information Visualization 47. Online Communities 48. Human Factors and Information Security 49. Usability Testing 50. Web Site Design and Evaluation 51. Design of E-Business Web Sites 52. Augmented Cognition in Human-System Interaction •Part IX. Design for Individual Differences 53. Design for People with Functional Limitations 54. Design for Aging 55. Design for Children 56. Design for All: Computer-Assisted Design of User Interface Adaptation •Part X. Selected Applications in Human Factors and Ergonomics 57. Human Factors and Ergonomics Standards 58. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Medicine 59. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Motor Vehicle Transportation 60. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Automation Design 61. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Process Control Index