Human Performance and Ergonomics brings together a comprehensive and modern account of how the context of performance
is crucial to understanding behavior. Environment provides both constraints and opportunities to individuals, such
that external conditions may have reciprocal or interactive effects on behavior. The book begins with an account
of research in human factors and engineering, with application of research to real world environments, methodological
concerns, and rumination on current and future trends. The book proceeds to how technology has moved from being
designed to help human physical survival to helping humans achieve "quality of life" improvements. Real
world examples are explored in detail including hearing technology, driving, and aviation. Issues of control, maneuvering,
and planning are discussed in conjunction with how intention and expectancy affect behavior. The fit between human
and environment is examined as a dynamic interaction, and many chapters address the all important human�machine
communication, particularly that between humans and computers. The book closes with a reminder that even our technological
environment is filled with other people, with whom we must interact personally or via technology, to achieve our
larger goals. Teamwork is thus discussed for its integration of cognitive, behavioral, and affective components
toward our achieving desired aims.