Emerging Needs and Opportunities for Human Factors Research

This book identifies areas that represent new needs and opportunities for human factors research in the coming decades. It is forward-looking, problem oriented, and selectively focused on national or global problems, including productivity in organizations, education and training, employment and disabilities, health care, and environmental change; technology issues, including communications technology and telenetworking, information access and usability, emerging technologies, automation, and flexible manufacturing, and advanced transportation systems; and human performance, including cognitive performance under stress and aiding intellectual work.

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Identifies areas that represent various opportunities for human factors research. This book focuses on national or global problems, including productivity in organizations, education and training, employment and disabilities, health care, and environmental change.

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• Authors: Board on Human-Systems Integration, Committee on Human Factors, Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council
• Assisted by: Raymond S Nickerson (Editor), Raymond S. Nickerson (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1995
• EAN: 9780309052764
• ISBN: 978-0-309-05276-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 549 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management