Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics

Contents: Job Design and Analysis: Inventing the future: collaborative design of socio-technical systems; Cafe of Eve: action research in the control room; Applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA): a practitioner's window into skilled decision making; Job design in integrated mail processing; A systems analysis of team working in control rooms: methodology considered; Models of decision making in emergency management; Emergency decision making on offshore installations; Cognitive processing and risky behaviour in industrial radiography; Modelling of human errors in cognitive processes observed in dynamic environments; Mental models of industrial jobs. Learning and Training: Effects of type of learning on control performance; Learning to control a coal-fired power plant: empirical results and a model; Cognitive technology for knowledge and skill acquisition in engineering disciplines; Dynamic modelling of a learning system to aid system re-engineering; Learning statistics: a high level cognitive skill; Perceptual learning in inspection tasks; The operator's analysis of the structure of a multi-dimensional video image of a mosaic subject area given the effects of hidden regularities; Target recognition performance following whole-views, part-views, and both-views training. Medical Ergonomics: Depth perception and indirect viewing: reflections on keyhole surgery; Construction and validation of a model for decision making in anaesthesia; Anaesthesiology and aviation: using the analogy; Medical cognition and computer support in the intensive care unit: a cognitive engineering approach; The patient-monitor system in intensive care: eliciting nurses' mental models. Applied Cognitive Psychology: Audio visual links in attention: implications for interface design; A parallel distributed processing model of redundant information integration; The magical name Miller, plus or minus the umlaut; A partial theory and engineering model of human information-seeking tasks; Mode