Bøker av Guy H. Walker

Provides an overview of, and practical guidance on, the range of human factors (HF) methods that can be used for the purposes of accident analysis and investigation in complex sociotechnical systems. This book describes a range of HF-based accident analysis methods, as well as step-by-step guidance on how to apply them.

This second edition of Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design now presents 107 design and evaluation methods including numerous refinements to those that featured in the original. The book acts as an ergonomics methods manual, aiding both students and practitioners.

Presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM) system. This book emphasises on the activities at the Brigade (Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. It concludes with a summary of the research project's findings and offers many insights.

Focuses on the concept of distributed situation awareness, which takes a systems perspective on the concept and moves the focus on situation awareness out of the heads of individual operators and on to the overall joint cognitive system consisting of human and technological agents.

Military command and control is not merely evolving, it is co-evolving. The question is how to manage this process, how to achieve a jointly optimised blend of socio and technical and create the kind of agility and self-synchronization that modern forms of command and control promise. This book proposes a re-visit sociotechnical systems theory.

Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of complex socio-technical systems. This book contains a comprehensive description of CWA, introducing it to the uninitiated and presents a number of applications in complex military domains to explore the benefits of CWA.

Driver Feedback in Automotive Engineering presents the outcome of a substantial research project into a relatively neglected area of vehicle design: vehicle feedback. It describes the ¿human factors¿ that lie at the heart of the driver-vehicle interaction, those which help to explain why so many people, with comparatively little training, can drive a car in what is a complex environment, with the appearance of relative ease.