Multi-media Global Human Factors Distance Education

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andris Freivalds ◽  
Myung Hwan Yun
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Multi Media

Tools for Human Performance Enhancement in Aviation Maintenance

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-60
Author(s):  
William B. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Aviation Maintenance ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Maintenance And Inspection ◽  
The Right

Human Factors and ergonomics professionals are often asked to “show” how their research has affected on-the-job human performance. They are asked to show measurable changes in human effectiveness and efficiency at work. There is always the demand for HF&E researchers to create procedures and tools that can guide non-human factors personnel to make the “right” human-centered decisions. This symposium will show and distribute such tools that have been designed and tested in an aviation maintenance environment. For over six years now, the Federal Aviation Administration Office of Aviation Medicine has conducted an extensive research program centered on human factors in aviation maintenance and inspection. The research program has earned a reputation of demonstrating a “hands-on” understanding of aviation maintenance and maintaining a close working relationship with all segments of the industry. The symposium will begin with an overview of FAA-sponsored research results applied to aviation maintenance and safety over the past six years. In the second paper the Human Factors Guide for Aviation Maintenance, completed in 1995, will be described. The third presentation will demonstrate a CD-ROM version of the Guide. The presentation shall also discuss human-computer interface issues pertinent to developing interactive multi-media information systems. The final presentation will show a multi-media software package to conduct ergonomics audits in a variety of industrial environments. The system has evolved from three years of ergonomics audit research in aviation maintenance workplaces. Each of the session presentations will demonstrate and distribute HF&E tools to session attendees.

Expanding Distance Education in the Spatial Sciences Through Virtual Learning Entities and a Virtual GIS Computer Laboratory

2008 ◽  
pp. 1605-1616
Author(s):  
S. Grunwald ◽  
V. Ramasundaram ◽  
G. L. Bruland ◽  
D. K. Jesseman
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Asynchronous Communication ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Hybrid Architecture ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Computer Laboratory ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Multi Media

In this article we describe the implementation of an emerging virtual learning environment to teach GIS and spatial sciences to distance education graduate students. We discuss the benefits and constraints of our mixed architecture with the main focus on the innovative hybrid architecture of the virtual GIS computer laboratory. Criteria that were used to develop the virtual learning environment included: (1) Facilitating student-instructor, student-computer, and student-student interactivity using a mix of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools; (2) Developing a liberal online learning environment in which students have access to a suite of passive and active multi-media tools; and (3) Allowing student access to a mixed Web-facilitated/hybrid architecture that stimulates their cognitive geographic skills and provides hands-on experience in using GIS.

BROADBAND NETWORKS FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING: SOME RESULTS AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS FROM A HUMAN FACTORS INVESTIGATION

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (04) ◽  
pp. 607-619
Author(s):  
FILOMENA PAPA
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Multimedia Systems ◽  
Broadband Networks ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
And Training

Distance education and training is one of the most promising application fields of broadband networks. The present contribution is focused on one of the main opportunities provided by broadband communication networks for distance education: advanced and interactive virtual classroom situations. In particular a virtual classroom field experiment, which employs broadband cellular radio telecommunication technologies is described. The investigation was realised, in cooperation, by Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (FUB) and RAI (Italian Public TV), using the tools made available by the human factors discipline. Some results of the investigation are presented concerning learners' performance and usability of the multimedia tele-education system including factors such as: ease of use usefulness; telepresence efficiency; users' satisfaction. Furthermore, operational results and practical solution coming out of the experiment are shown as well. They include the basic features of multimedia systems used in virtual classroom and the correct procedures for training teachers and learners in the equipment use.

The Systems on Web-Based Multimedia for Distance Learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 58-60 ◽  
pp. 922-926
Author(s):  
Rong Jyue Fang ◽  
Yung Sheng Chang ◽  
Hua Lin Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Effective Utilization ◽  
Multi Media

Education is now engaged in a transitional period with respect to new technologies which is unique in its history. No previous technologies which have been proposed to “revolutionize” education have simultaneously had identical or equivalent revolutionary consequences for this world. Given the technological resources, dealing with the challenges to their effective utilization in education will focus on human-professional. To assist web-based multimedia for distance education, it is important to understand the characteristic and its educational concerns. This study was to identify characteristics of web-based multi-media for distance learning settings.

The Development of a Multi‐media Distance Education Prototype

1990 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 212-215
Author(s):  
Daniel Peraya ◽  
Maurice Wenger
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Multi Media

Presto: Multi-Media Distributed Network for Collaborative Work in Command and Control

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (15) ◽  
pp. 758-761
Author(s):  
John A. Modrick
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Operational Conditions ◽  
Joint Task ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Collaborative Activities ◽  
Rapid Deployment ◽  
And Control

The human factors requirements are discussed in terms of support for individuals in a distributed C2 network and interactions to do collaborative work. PRESTO provides access to an orbiting Global Infosphere, a multi-source, multi-media data base on operational conditions and events. The system should facilitate development of shared situation awareness and coordinated actions. The approach to user interface is a concept of “Active View.” The content of each active view is defined by operational tasks and area of responsibility. The diversity of users requires a diversity of active views, each constructed to fit the characteristics of each application. The challenge to human factors is to develop an architecture of collaborative activities which can be mapped into PRESTO's software architecture and modules. These activities can be divided into single multi-media workstation, individual's active views in integrated multi-media format, collaborative transactions between workstations, and data integration into a shared situational representation. Taxonomies for collaborative behaviors and use of multi-media will have to be developed. An application to Joint Task Force is a probable implementation. The JTF is a distributed command group for rapid deployment and control of interservice forces in crisis management.

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