Psychology 2990A/B Lecture Notes - Graphical User Interface, Engineering Psychology, Human Factors And Ergonomics

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Fitting the user to the machine: other common names for the field: Engineering psychology: definition p. 226: the science of, designing machines for human use and, determining appropriate behaviors for the efficient operation of machines. Machines includes thump tacks to nuclear missiles. = two goals that led to development of the field fitting the machine to the user, fitting the user to the machine. Part 1: historical development: design the machine and ignore the user. Design of army tanks (p. 235) there was no problem with the tanks, no consideration was given to the ppl using the tanks. Eg: too much noise, couldn"t talk to eachother, Poor visibility, could not see near the tank and would fall into ditches. Seating position caused back and neck injuries, More damage to the operators than the enemy! Altitude display in airplanes: too complex (took 7 sec to read; misread 12% of the time).