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The globalized nature of work in the new millennium implies that human resource management, psychological theories of personnel and individual behaviour in the workplace have to change and evolve. This volume mainly focuses on theories, techniques and methods used by industrial and work psychologists. A set of internationally renowned authors summarize advances in core topics such as analysis of work, work design, job performance, performance appraisal and feedback, workplace counterproductivity, recruitment and personnel selection, work relevant individual difference variables (cognitive ability, personality), human-machine interactions, human errors, training, learning, individual development, socialization, methods, and measurement.
Human–Machine Interaction: Usability and User Needs of the System
Human–Machine Interaction: Usability and User Needs of the System
This chapter considers the development and concept of human machine interaction (HMI) from the central viewpoint of the user in the system. Thus, whereas traditional ergonomics and human factors argued for design based on an equivalent interplay between people and their environments, the view propounded in this chapter is for person centrality - the superiority of the user as the controlling feature of any system. Without such a view, the richness of people-environment interactions that is over and above a simple mechanistic transfer of control and information will be lost. People bring to the system a collection of inherent strengths and weaknesses (from such factors as experiences, expectations, ...
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