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The APA Handbook of Human Systems Integration is a practical tool
for both students and professionals who need specific knowledge
about human considerations in systems design. It is intended to
sensitize readers to basic design issues, enhance their
understanding of the influence of these issues, and guide them in
appropriately combining human performance with a system's numerous
interacting components. A central tenet of this book is that it is
not sufficient to examine items independently - one must go beyond
a focus on individual workers, tools, tasks, or environments. Thus,
the handbook is a ""how to"" resource that reflects the
state-of-the-art on work in this enterprise. The book's opening
chapters define what is meant by human systems integration, provide
a historical overview of the field, and describe a set of case
studies to which many chapter authors apply their expertise.
Succeeding chapters reflect on the physical, physiological,
perceptual, cognitive, and organizational considerations that
affect human systems performance and discuss how the knowledge base
of the field has been applied in various domains. The remaining
chapters describe the trade-offs associated with integrating
individual considerations and systems performance, discussing how a
decision that optimizes performance in one area (e.g., display
design) may entail a reduction of performance in another area
(e.g., staffing or personnel selection).
The papers in this volume represent the work presented at the 1996
workshop. One of the goals of the workshop, in 1986, was to bring
together the small and disparate group of researchers who were
wrestling with difficult and complex issues of programming. The
text includes papers, posters, tutorials and panels used at the
1996 workshop.
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