This new entry promises to be the most truly accessible undergraduate human factors text. A real teaching textbook
and not an academic handbook, An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering, teaches current research by active
researchers, extensive case studies, and a unique, hands-on, interactive focus.
Features
This is the only human factors text containing a unique hands-on, interactive focus with built in, end-of-chapter
problems to promote learning.
This text is built around salient case studies, such as a factory assembly line, an automated teller, a household
appliance, and an aircraft landing, that each illustrate the challenges to design. More importantly, An Introduction
to Human Factors Engineering engages students and promotes learning and the retention of information.
This text features current research by active researchers in the field.
An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering is more of a teaching text than an academic handbook with more
information about applying principles of research.
Wickens, Gordon, and Liu's reputations and their ability to synthesize research at an appropriate level to
give thorough treatment of real world applications are a hallmark feature of this text.
Table of Contents
Chapter. 1: Introduction to Human Factors
Chapter. 2: Research Methods
Chapter. 3: Design and Evaluation Methods
Chapter. 4: Visual Sensory Systems
Chapter. 5: Auditory, Kinesthetic, and Tactile Processing
Chapter. 6: Cognition
Chapter. 7: Decision Making
Chapter. 8: Displays
Chapter. 9: Control
Chapter. 10: Engineering Anthropometry and Work Space Design
Chapter. 11: Biomechanics at Work
Chapter. 12: Work Physiology
Chapter. 13: Stress
Chapter. 14: Safety, Accidents, and Human Error
Chapter. 15: Human-Computer Interaction
Chapter. 16: Automation
Chapter. 17: Transportation Human Factors
Chapter. 18: Selection, Training, and Social Factors
