Human Factors in Technology (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Human Factors in TechnologyFor some time we have thought that those scientific and engineering efforts investigating the relation of man to his technological environment should be reviewed more adequately in the professional literature. Even the new interdisciplinary journals such as Ergonomics, the ire T rans actions on Human Factors in Electronics, and the Journal of the Human Factors Society, depending heavily upon spontaneously contributed articles, have not as yet been able to present as wide a technical over view of the field as is necessary.With this need in mind, in the spring of 1960, when the Human Factors Society invited us to prepare their fourth annual meeting, we were delighted to accept an opportunity to test some of our ideas about presenting a range of topics focused upon the many-faceted relation between man and his technology. We asked an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers to work with us in selecting the subject areas that together would provide a thorough overview of the field. We also asked this team to help us in selecting and obtaining the cooperation of an outstanding man in each of these areas who would, as Session Chair man, be responsible for inviting speakers to represent his particular discipline.The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society was held on September 12 - 14, 1960, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By all appearances it was a success, for a truly interdisciplinary audience was given an opportunity to learn of the problems and recent achievements in a wide range of human factors areas.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.