Current economic difficulties and the challenge of competing in the world market have necessitated a rethinking of American approaches to the utilization of people in organizations.
Military robots and other, potentially autonomous robotic systems such as unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) could soon be introduced to the battlefield.
Maritime Accident and Incident Investigation covers a wide range of topics relating to maritime-orientated organisational hazards and risks, as well as root cause analyses and techniques for analysing evidence.
AI in and for Africa: A Humanistic Perspective explores the convoluted intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) with Africa's unique socio-economic realities.
Due to the requirements of automatic system design, and new needs for the training of complex tasks, Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) has been used with increasing frequency in recent years by the airline industry and air traffic control community.
For the past decade, the rapid development of the ergonomics disciplines as well as the fast growing economy in the Asian region have been attracting the attention of the international ergonomics community.
In today's rapidly changing workplace, safety and loss prevention professionals cannot always "e;go by the book"e; for the answers to new and unique problems and issues.
Although speech is the most natural form of communication between humans, most people find using speech to communicate with machines anything but natural.
Military capability is delivered operationally at a team and collective level, be it a unit as small as a squad or section, or as large as a maritime task group.
Principles of Emergency Management: Hazard Specific Issues and Mitigation offers preparedness and mitigation recommendations for advanced emergency planning.
The potential of software applications to solve an array of office and administrative problems is increasing faster than the ability of users to exploit it.
This book outlines the new concept of user engineering and covers the diversity of users, along with the business process that includes the design and the user's experience processes.
This book aims to bring to the reader an overview of different applications of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) based on more than 20 years of experience working on these interfaces.
This book documents the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), which brought together researchers from diverse backgrounds to compare cognitive models; evaluate models using human data; and further the development, accumulation, and integration of cognitive theory.
This is a primary text project that combines sustainability development with engineering entrepreneurship and design to present a transdisciplinary approach to modern engineering education.
This book is a collective work by many leading scientists, analysts, mathematicians, and engineers who have been working at the front end of reliability science and engineering.
The advent of very compact, very powerful digital computers has made it possible to automate a great many processes that formerly required large, complex machinery.
Signal detection theory--as developed in electrical engineering and based on statistical decision theory--was first applied to human sensory discrimination 40 years ago.
Broadly defined as the science and technology of systems responding to neural processes in the brain, neuroadaptive systems (NASs) has become a rapidly developing area of study.
ALREDEDOR de los diferentes modelos planteados para conseguir una articulación entre las exigencias de las normas que versan sobre la seguridad y salud en el trabajo, han aparecido propuestas diversas que tratan de armonizar iniciativas de actividades y planes de salud con el entorno organizacional, que, si bien son el resultado de condiciones y formas de ver el proceso productivo en distintas empresas, no podría dejarse de lado la realidad, que en el afán de producir bienes o servicios, hace que las organizaciones incurran en reiteradas exposiciones laborales en detrimento de la salud e integridad de sus trabajadores, quienes solo tienen su fuerza de trabajo para garantizar su subsistencia, quedando a merced de situaciones de riesgos que requieren ser manejados de manera sistemática para evitar accidentes de trabajo o enfermedades laborales.
"Dentro de los procesos de diseño, el papel de la ergonomía es fundamental para asegurar la compatibilidad de los sistemas, productos y servicios con las características del ser humano y su actividad.