Psychology 2990A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rtfm

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

Document Summary

Not effective (e. g. , wwii: design of army tanks (p. 235) (a) designing machines for human use and (b) determining appropriate behaviors for the efficient operation of machines (cid:224) two goals that led to development of the field. Time & motion studies: train workers to move more efficiently when using machines (eliminate unnecessary movement: training was time consuming and expensive to provide, machines were becoming so complex that no amount of training would be effective (they exceeded human capabilities to operate them) (cid:224) then engineering psychologists suggested 3 rd approach, design the machine so it fits the user. So products must be designed to be safe (don"t change the user; change the product!: (c) the development of personal computers: originally designed to be functional , but not user friendly e. g. , command line interface required learning a new language, e. g. , to underline: [ctl u] word [ctl u] ~