Overview of Key Human Factors Concepts
Overview of Key Human Factors Concepts
- The System
- DEFINITION: a set of connected things or parts that form a whole or work together. (Oxford American Dictionary)
- Levels of Human-Machine System interactions. (Kantowitz and Sorkin, 1983)
- 1. Person supplies power and control (shovel)
- 2. Machine supplies power; person control (welding)
- 3. Machine supplies power and information; person still controls (factories)
- 4. Machine supplies power, information and control; person monitors (Boeing 757/767)