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During the course of any sporting event, critical cognitive and
physical tasks are performed within a dynamic, complex,
collaborative system comprising multiple humans and artifacts,
under pressurized, complex, and rapidly changing conditions. Highly
skilled, well-trained individuals walk a fine line between task
success and failure, with only slightly inadequate task execution
leading to the latter. Promoting cross-disciplinary interaction
between the human factors and sports science disciplines, Human
Factors Methods and Sports Science: A Practical Guide provides
practical guidance on a range of methods for describing,
representing, and evaluating human, team, and system performance in
sports domains. Traditionally, the application of human factors and
ergonomics methods in sports has focused on the biomechanical,
physiological, environmental, and equipment-related aspects of
sports performance. However, various human factors methods, applied
historically in the complex safety critical domains, are suited to
describing and understanding sports performance. This book
delineates the similarities in the concepts requiring investigation
within sports and the more typical human factors domains. The
book's focus on cognitive and social human factors methods rather
than mainly on the application of physiological ergonomics
approaches sets it apart from other books in either field. It
covers eight categories of human factor methods: data collection,
task analysis, cognitive task analysis, human error identification,
situation awareness measurement, workload measurement, team
performance assessment, and interface evaluation methods.
Constructed so that each chapter can be read non-linearly and
independently from one another, the book provides an introduction
and overview to each Human Factors topic area, and of each method
discussed, along with practical guidance on how to apply them. It
also includes detailed descriptions of the different methods,
example applications, and theoretical rationale. This allows the
concepts to be easily found and digested, and the appropriate
method to be easily selected and applied.
Whether used for aviation, manufacturing, oil and gas
extraction, energy distribution, nuclear or fossil fuel power
generation, surveillance or security, all control rooms share two
common features. The people operating them are often remote from
the processes that they are monitoring and controlling and the
operations work 24/7. The twin demands of remote and continuous
operation place special considerations on the design of central
control rooms. Human Factors in the Design and Evaluation of
Central Control Room Operations provides an analysis of Human
Factors and Ergonomics in this complex area and the implications
for control room staff. This information contained within this book
can then be used to design, assessed and evaluate control
rooms.
Taking an integrated approach to Human Factors and Ergonomics in
the control room environment, the book presents fourteen human
factors topics: competencies, training, procedures, communications,
workload, automation, supervision, shift patterns, control room
layout, SCADA interfaces, alarms, control room environment, human
error, and safety culture. Although there are many resources
available on each of these topics, this book the information
together under one cover with a focus on central control room
operations. Each chapter is self-contained and can be read in any
order, as the information is required.
In 1950, as Arnold Schoenberg anticipated the publication of a
collection of 15 of his most important writings, Style and Idea, he
was already at work on a second volume to be called Program Notes.
Inspired by this idea, Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical
Analyses can boast the most comprehensive study of the composer's
writings about his own music yet published. Schoenberg's insights
emerge not only in traditional program notes, but also in letters,
sketch materials, pre-concert talks, public lectures, contributions
to scholarly journals, newspaper articles, interviews, pedagogical
materials, and publicity fliers. The editions of the texts in this
collection, based almost exclusively on Schoenberg's original
manuscript sources, include many items appearing in print in
English for the first time, as well as more familiar texts that
preserve musical and textual information eliminated from previous
editions. The book also reveals how Schoenberg, desirous to
communicate with and educate an audience, took every advantage of
changes in technology during his lifetime, utilizing print media,
radio broadcasts, record jackets-and had he lived, television-for
this purpose. In addition to four chapters in which Schoenberg
illuminates 42 of his own compositions, the book begins with
chapters on his development and influences, his thoughts about
trends in modern music, and, in a nod to the importance of the
radio in providing a venue for music analysis, a chapter about
Schoenberg's radio broadcasts.
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