Preface to the Special Issue on Exploring Cognitive Readiness in Complex Operational Environments

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick A. Mason ◽  
Jill S. McQuade
Keyword(s):  
Human Performance ◽  
Dynamic State ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Complex Environment ◽  
Cognitive Readiness ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Machine Systems ◽  
And Training

The capabilities enabled by cognitive readiness underlie successful human performance in any complex environment. Cognitive readiness can be viewed as encompassing individuals’ inherent traits, their training and experience, and their current dynamic state. Because of this, collaboration across the physiological and cognitive research communities is critical. Incorporating the latest advances in cognitive readiness research that are documented in this three-part special issue into the design, development, deployment, selection, and training of human-machine systems will enable the operational community to enhance human performance and effectiveness.

Computational human performance modelling for human-in-the-Loop machine systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 5349-5357
Author(s):  
Hoshang Kolivand ◽  
Valentina E. Balas ◽  
Anand Paul ◽  
Varatharajan Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Systems ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Performance Modelling ◽  
Human In The Loop ◽  
Machine Systems

This special issue of the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems contains selected articles of computational human performance modelling for human-in-the-loop machine systems.

Influence of Task and Situational Variables on the Applicability of Vigilance Data to Physical Security

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 606-607
Author(s):  
Ben B. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Clear Trend ◽  
General Belief ◽  
Situational Variables ◽  
Performance Requirements ◽  
Limited Applicability ◽  
Machine Systems ◽  
Inspection Tasks ◽  
The Many

Vigilance is one of the most thoroughly researched areas of human performance. Volumes have been written concerning vigilance performance in both laboratory and real-world settings, and there is a clear trend in the literature toward an increasing emphasis on the study of operational task behavior under environmental conditions that are common to real world jobs. Although a great deal of this research has been designed to test various aspects of the many theories of vigilance, there is a general belief that vigilance research is relevant and applicable to the performances required in real-world monitoring and inspection tasks. Indeed, many of the reported studies are justified on the basis of their apparent relevance to vigilance requirements in modern man-machine systems, industrial inspection tasks, and military jobs. There is a growing body of literature, however, which suggests that many vigilance studies are of limited applicability to operational task performance. For example, Kibler (1965) has argued that technological changes have altered job performance requirements to the extent that laboratory vigilance studies are no longer applicable to real-world jobs. Many others have simply been unable to reproduce the typical “vigilance decrement” in field situations. This has led Teichner (1974) to conclude that “the decremental function itself is more presumed than established.”

scholarly journals International Vocational Education and Training Research: An Introduction to the Special Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Michael Gessler ◽  
Sandra Bohlinger ◽  
Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Recipient Country ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Training

The seven articles in this special issue represent a wide range of international comparative and review studies by international research teams from China, Germany, India, Russia, Switzerland and Mexico. The presented projects are part of the national program "Research on the Internationalisation of Vocational Education and Training", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).  An adapted version of Urie Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory forms the conceptual framework of the special issue. The four system levels (micro, meso, exo and macro) are addressed by one article each. The article on the microsystem level focuses on the intended and implemented curricula in a cross-country comparison of China and Russia. The article on the mesosystem level aims at the development of a quality management model for vocational education and training (VET) institutions in India. At the exolevel, the regional structures of the education and employment systems in Mexico, particularly the cooperation between schools and companies in the hotel industry, are investigated. At the macrosystem level, the social representation of non-academic labour in Mexico is examined in terms of cultural artefacts. Furthermore, three overarching review studies systematise relevant research developments and approaches. The topics of the three review studies are European VET policy, transfer of VET and VET research. The scope ranges from the development of a comparative research tool to a summary analysis of over 5,000 individual publications. Given the broad scope and heterogeneity of the findings, a summative conclusion would hardly be appropriate. Nevertheless, with regard to the model of the ‘triadic conception of purposes in comparative VET research’ that represents a heuristic for describing the purposes of international VET research, we conclude with an emphasis on a need of more criticality. In this context, one finding can be pointed out as an example: One review study found that most studies (here, with reference to VET transfer) refer to the recipient country without a comparative perspective. Thus, there is a clear demand for more comparative research following a critical-reflective approach. 

Man-Machine Systems: Information, Control, and Decision Models of Human Performance

1975 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 703
Author(s):  
James K. Arima ◽  
Thomas B. Sheridan ◽  
William R. Ferrell
Keyword(s):  
Human Performance ◽  
Decision Models ◽  
Information Control ◽  
Machine Systems

Building Quality Online Courses

2018 ◽  
pp. 309-331
Author(s):  
Veronica Outlaw ◽  
Margaret L. Rice ◽  
Vivian H. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Online Course Development ◽  
And Training

The authors have personally experienced the burdens of creating online courses without the assistance of trained instructional designers. Many faculty are employed in conditions where they develop online courses without the proper knowledge and training of many essential aspects that should accompany the development of an online course (e.g., design, development, learning styles, copyright, design principles, accessibility, incorporating technology, and technical skills) (Singleton et al., 2013; Speck, 2000; Wickersham et al., 2007). The authors propose and describe the use of a detailed online course development and delivery model (Outlaw & Rice, 2015) that was created to provide distance education units with a systematic approach to course development. The proposed model nourishes the partnerships between faculty and designers to improve the quality of online courses, while providing the support faculty need to successfully create online courses. The authors discuss a model that provides consistency in efforts to create efficient workflows to develop online courses.

International perspectives on social justice: Introduction to the special issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Sally L. Grapin ◽  
David Shriberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
School Psychology ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Training ◽  
International Social

The concept of social justice has become increasingly prominent in school psychology practice, research, and training. While the literature in this area has burgeoned over the last decade, relatively less scholarship has synthesized global perspectives on social justice. This article provides a brief introduction to the special issue, International Perspectives on Social Justice. In particular, we describe contributions of each of the issue’s four articles to the social justice literature in school and educational psychology as well as identify prominent themes. Finally, we describe potential directions for advancing an international social justice agenda in school psychology.

scholarly journals Man-Machine Systems (Information, Control, and Decision Models of Human Performance)

1975 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Sheridan ◽  
William R. Ferrell ◽  
Masayoshi Tomizuka
Keyword(s):  
Human Performance ◽  
Decision Models ◽  
Information Control ◽  
Machine Systems
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