Quantitative Modeling of Human Performance in Complex, Dynamic Systems.

HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELS IN MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS -- Background -- Summary -- HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELS IN SUPERVISORY CONTROL -- Background -- Summary -- 4 Issues and Research Recommendations -- OVERVIEW -- SPECIFICS -- Complex/Comprehensive Human Performance Models -- Issues -- Recommendations --...

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Corporate Author: Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : National Academies Press Oct. 1990.
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Table of Contents:
  • Quantitative Modeling of Human Performance in Complex, Dynamic Systems
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • SCOPE
  • WHAT IS HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELING?
  • Output Versus Process
  • Predictive Versus Descriptive
  • Prescriptive (Normative) Versus Descriptive
  • Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up
  • Single-Task (Limited Scope) Versus Multitask (Comprehensive)
  • MODELING METHODOLOGY
  • WHY USE HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELS?
  • Processes That May Benefit from Their Use
  • Theory Development and Evaluation
  • System Design and Evaluation
  • Alternative (or Complementary) Methodologies to Modeling
  • Expert Opinion
  • Simulation
  • Evaluation of Real Systems
  • Laboratory Experimentation
  • Benefits of Human Performance Modeling
  • Genealogy of Human Performance Models
  • Information-Processing Models
  • Control Theory Models
  • Task Network Models
  • Knowledge-Based Models
  • 2 Approaches To Human Performance Modeling
  • MODELS OF LIMITED SCOPE
  • LARGER, OR INTEGRATIVE, APPROACHES
  • Information Processing
  • Background
  • Exemplar
  • Strengths
  • Caveats
  • Control Theory
  • Background
  • Exemplar
  • Strengths
  • Caveats
  • Task Network
  • Background
  • Illustration
  • Time/Accuracy Models
  • Other Performance Measures
  • Processing Models
  • Open-and Closed-Loop Models
  • Models of Limited Scope
  • Aggregation Issues and Macromodels
  • Exemplars
  • Strengths
  • Caveats
  • Knowledge-Based
  • Background
  • Exemplars
  • Strengths
  • Caveats
  • SUMMARY OF MODELING APPROACHES
  • 3 Applications
  • HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELS IN AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS
  • Flight Control
  • Background
  • Current Issues
  • Summary
  • Aircrew Workload
  • Background
  • Current Issues
  • Summary
  • Air-To-Surface Search and Targeting
  • Background
  • Current Issues
  • Summary
  • HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELS IN NUCLEAR POWER OPERATIONS
  • Background
  • Current Issues.