Human factors in workstation design

This panel addresses the extent to which students should be exposed to both human factors psychology and industrial/organizational psychology. Should a combined curriculum be developed called work psychology that would have a core set of courses including both industrial/organizational and human factors while still permitting students to specialize? Should courses should be taught in a holistic fashion? For example, when covering the topic of workplace design, should such topics as workstation design, ergonomics, and shift work be augmented with organizational topics as fatigue, boredom, morale, teamwork, job enrichment, and safety? Conversely, is there, perhaps, strong justification for continuing to maintain two distinct disciplines? The panel members straddle the continuum from advocating continued separation of the two disciplines to re-integrating the two disciplines.

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Human Factors in the Space and Naval Warfare Command: Display System Standardization

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193128803201621 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 32 (16) ◽

pp. 1090-1094

Author(s):

Phillip J. Andrews ◽

Kathryn E. Permenter ◽

David R. Eike ◽

Thomas B. Malone

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

The State ◽

Design Concept ◽

Display System ◽

Naval Warfare ◽

Workstation Design

This paper describes the state and status of human factors within the Space and Naval Warfare Command (SPAWAR) by focusing on a major effort currently being pursued within SPAWAR, that of developing a standard workstation design concept for Navy applications. Human factors concerns were paramount in the assessment of requirements for a standardized workstation applicable to Navy-wide requirements. The major human factors concern was display usability.

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Critique of Methods Employed in Human Factors Research on VDTs

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193128202600404 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 295-299

Author(s):

Jayne M. Schurick ◽

Martin G. Helander ◽

Patricia A. Billingsley

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Work Organization ◽

Experimental Studies ◽

Control Group ◽

Design Work ◽

Subject Selection ◽

Selection Strategies ◽

Workstation Design ◽

Areas Of Interest ◽

Human Factors Research

This report summarizes a review of human factors research on VDTs. The main areas of interest included workstation design, character and display design, work organization, lighting and reflectance, and visual discomfort. Experimental studies were critically reviewed for the soundness of their methodologies and conclusions. In many of the studies, there were problems of interpreting the results due to careless oversights on the part of the researcher(s), for example, the inappropriate selection of subjects or lack of a control group. Due to different subject selection strategies and different VDT parameters, the integration and generalization of research results is difficult.

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Human Factors of Remotely Operated Vehicles

10.1016/s1479-3601(2006)7 ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Remotely Operated Vehicles

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An Application of the HFACS Method to Aviation Accidents in Africa

Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors ◽

10.1027/2192-0923/a000093 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 33-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Isaac Munene

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Physical Environment ◽

Human Factor ◽

Flight Training ◽

African Countries ◽

Causal Factors ◽

Aviation Accidents ◽

Factors Analysis ◽

Adverse Weather ◽

Decision Errors

Abstract. The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) methodology was applied to accident reports from three African countries: Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. In all, 55 of 72 finalized reports for accidents occurring between 2000 and 2014 were analyzed. In most of the accidents, one or more human factors contributed to the accident. Skill-based errors (56.4%), the physical environment (36.4%), and violations (20%) were the most common causal factors in the accidents. Decision errors comprised 18.2%, while perceptual errors and crew resource management accounted for 10.9%. The results were consistent with previous industry observations: Over 70% of aviation accidents have human factor causes. Adverse weather was seen to be a common secondary casual factor. Changes in flight training and risk management methods may alleviate the high number of accidents in Africa.

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