Human Factors and Behavioral Science: Textons, The Fundamental Elements in Preattentive Vision and Perception of Textures

In both linguistics and computer science, formal grammars are used to describe languages precisely. Formal grammatical description has not generally been applied in the human factors area, which traditionally draws on behavioral science for its methodology. This paper illustrates, by means of a detailed example, how formal description can be used in human factors.

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Human Factors and Behavioral Science: A Study of the Match Between the Stylistic Difficulty of Technical Documents and the Reading Skills of Technical Personnel

Bell System Technical Journal ◽

10.1002/j.1538-7305.1983.tb03516.x ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 62 (6) ◽

pp. 1849-1864 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

E. U. Coke ◽

M. E. Koether

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Reading Skills ◽

Behavioral Science ◽

Technical Personnel ◽

Technical Documents

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Human Factors in Cybersecurity

Security science journal ◽

10.37458/ssj.2.2.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 51-64

Author(s):

Esmeralda Kadena ◽

Marsidi Gupi

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Human Factor ◽

Behavioral Science ◽

Organizational Level ◽

Educational Systems ◽

The Third ◽

Digital Era ◽

The Individual ◽

Security Incidents

Technological solutions in the mobile and digital era are becoming more helpful in informing the population, educational systems, monitoring, tracking the individuals, working, and spending time from home. On the other hand, the valuable information within such systems is posed to the risk of breaches at the individual and organizational level. As a result, cyber threats are constantly evolving. Many security incidents and data breaches are associated with the human factor. Respectively, this work highlights the importance of human factors in cybersecurity. Firstly, this article gives a brief overview of the topic and its significance. Then we present the most common risks in the cybersecurity field and their impacts. The third part emphasizes the role of human factors in security and elaborates on the behavioral approaches. Our conclusions are drawn in the last detail. To further our research, we plan to investigate behavioral science theories on understanding the influence of human factors in cybersecurity.

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