30th Annual Occupational Safety and Health
Winter Institute
Human Factors in System Design – Taking Ergonomics to the Next Level
February 15-16, 2010
Tradewinds Island Grand
St. Pete Beach, Florida
TECH EXAM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 at 11:30 AM.
PLEASE MAKE TRAVEL PLANS ACCORDINGLY.
This course is offered for practicing engineers and designers who are working on human-machine system design and interaction. The course covers human cognitive capabilities and behavior as a basis for design of complex systems. It focuses on task analysis methods to identify operator goals, decisions and information requirements in support of interface content and format specification. It provides an overview of usability and experimental methods for evaluation of interactive system designs.
Course Faculty
David B. Kaber, PhD, CHFP, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
Objectives
- Describe the Human-Machine System
- Discuss the Human-Centered Design Process
- Identify the Focus on Task Analysis
- Discuss Applied Design Guidelines for Operator System Awareness - Displays and Control Design
- Identify Usability Evaluation Methods
- Discuss Experimental Evaluation of Designs
Agenda Topics
- Defining Human Factors
- Motivation and goal
- Definitions and concept
- Objectives and fallacies
- Brief history and present day
- Description of Human-Machine Systems
- Types of human-machine systems – manual, supervisory, automatic
- Aspects of human information processing – perception, memory, decision making and attention
- Types and Levels of Automation and Human Performance
- Model of automation
- Automation of human information processing functions
- Application of model to systems design
- Evaluation criteria for automation
- Discussion of Human-Centered Design Processes
- Objectives and performance specification
- System definition
- Basic design
- Interface design
- Help system design
- Test and evaluation
- Focus on Cognitive Task Analysis in Design
- Hierarchical task analysis (exercise)
- Goal-directed task analysis (exercise)
- Design Guidelines for Operator System/Situation Awareness and Applications to Displays and Control Design
- Types of information display
- Display information coding
- Good display characteristics
- Control design
- Display-control compatibility
- Overview of Usability Evaluation Methods for Interface Designs
- Observational methods
- Verbal protocols
- Questionnaires
- Overview of Usability Evaluation Methods (cont’d)
- Heuristic evaluation (exercise)
- Walkthrough methods
- Usability engineering
- Overview of Experimental Evaluation of Designs
- Human factors research areas
- Descriptive studies, experimental and evaluation research
- Field vs. lab studies
- Variable selection
- Participants
- Response measure selection
- Data analysis
Credit
1 Elective Tech Credit
ABIH (Category 4) requested
1.5 BCSP
CEUs requested
Meeting Times
Course begins Monday, February 15 at 8:00 am and ends Tuesday, February 16 at 5:00 pm.
Tuition and Registration
Please
review our Registration
Policies.
Tuition for this course is $700,
$750 after
Jan. 29.
To register online, go to the Winter Institute Registration Form.
You may also submit your registration via email;
please be sure to include the course title
and date.
For further information on this course, contact
the NC ERC office at osherc@unc.edu,
or call us at 919-962-2101, toll free at 888-235-3320.
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