Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Air Traffic Controller, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Pilot Error
2 Dec 2014
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Case study: it"s your choice, part 1: believe the person or the machine: two aircraft were on a collision course on the night of july 1st 2002 over southern. The emergency computer system for the controller that would have immediately alarmed him of the impeding collision was also off and on routine maintenance, there was no backup. In this tragedy, machines worked as they were designed to, it was the people who failed. Ather qureshi: the human factors and ergonomics society consists primarily of psychologists and engineers, but it also includes professionals from medicine, sociology, anthropology, computer sciences, and other behavioral and physical sciences. In the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the number of master"s-level psychologists undertaking careers in engineering psychology: the growth of the field remains dynamic and its work extends to many types of organizations. 1898 when fredick w. taylor, the promoter of scientific management, undertook.
