provides a foundation in theprinciples of human performance and a broad overview of the field of human factors for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The book, which is organized around the human as an information-processing system, introduces students to a range of human factors topices. The close relationship between basic research and theory is emphasized throughout the text, with a focus on methods, reasoning, and theories used by basic and applied researchers.

This third edition updates and expands the earlier editions taking into account the technological changes over the last nine years. While technology may change, the foundation for understanding human performance remains the same. This foundation allows us to address human factors issues in new and emerging technol-ogies from a coherent, process-oriented perspective. As such, our goal continues to be to provide students with the knowledge necessary to understand the range of human factors issues that may be encountered in the design, implementation, and evaluation of products and systems.

Contents

Preface to Third Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Authors

Part 1. FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN FACTORS
Chapter 1. Historical Foundations of Human Factors.
Chapter 2. Research Methods in Human Factors
Chapter 3 Reliability and Human Error in Systems
Chapter 4 Human Information Processing

Part 2. Perceptual Factors and Their Applications
Chapter 5. Visual Perception
Chapter 6. Perception of Objects in the World
Chapter 7. Hearing, Proprioception, and the Chemical Senses
Chapter 8. The Display of Visual, Auditory, and Tactual Information

Part 3. Cognitive Factors and Their Applications
Chapter 9. Attention and the Assessment of Mental Workload
Chapter 10. Retention and Comprehension of Information
Chapter 11. Solving Problems and Making Decisions
Chapter 12. Experts and Expert Systems

Part 4. Action Factors and Their Applications
Chapter 13. Response Selection and Principles of Compatibility
Chapter 14. Control of Movement and Learning of Motor Skill
Chapter 15. Controls and Controlling Actions

Part 5. Environmental Factors and Their Applications
Chapter 16. Anthropometrics and Workspace Design
Chapter 17. Environmental Ergonomics
Chapter 18. Human Resource Management and Macroergonomics
Chapter 19. The Practice of Human Factors

Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Glossary
References
List of Credits
Index

AUTHORS
Robert W. Proctor
(Distinguished professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University)

Trisha Van Zandt
(Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University)

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