Engineering Psychology

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Engineering Psychology
Engineering Psychology

• cognitive psychology creativity design
  transportation psychology Operator Control
  operator control HMI visualisation of
  information workorganisation psychology
  theories of personality

http//users.fs.cvut.cz/jurajaku/ing-psych
Jakub Jura Jakub.Jura_at_fs.cvut.cz http//users.fs.c
vut.cz/jurajaku
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Course website

• http//users.fs.cvut.cz/jurajaku/ing-psych/

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What is Psychology?

• Psychology is the science of behavior and mental
  processes.
• Disciplines
• General Psychology
• Social Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Psychology of Personality
• Psychometrics
• Psychosemantics
• Clinical PsychologyPsychotherapy

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What is Engineering psychology?

• Psychological approach to the solution of
  technical problems.
• Engineering Psychology is mutidisciplinary science
  .
• Engineering Psychology is concerned with adapting
  the equipment and environment to people, based
  upon their psychological capacities and
  limitations (Blum, 1952) 
• Roots
• Army psychology
• Ergonomics 
• Transportation psychology
• Personnel psychology
• Experimental psychology

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Problems
Creative design (inventions, innovations) 
aviation (altimeter  - misreading error )
munitions factories (First World War) 

• Human resources
• Testing - Selecting
• Training

Adaptation of technical equipments to human
operator
nuclear industry (Cernobyl, Three Mile Island ) 
transportation (speed merchant) 
Artificial intelligence (MAS, UNS) 
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Sylabus

• Engineering psychology fundamentals (history,
  principles, applications).
• Casuistics of use some use of engineering
  psychology.
• Bionics fundamentals (classic cases and
  applications).
• Cognitive science fundamentals - a demonstration
  of a multidisciplinary approach in science.
• Basic knowledge of psychology and philosophy of
  integrated CS (mind-body problem, cognitive
  psychology, structuralism, gestaltism).
• Basic knowledge of linguistics and neuroscience
  integrated in CS (neuropsychology of language
  functions, biolingvistics).
• Multiagent systems (the path from a centralized
  to a distributed approach).
• Knowledge ontology of multiagent systems.
• Holonic systems (the path from the multi-agent
  approach to the holonic problems, production
  fractaling).
• System approach and system dynamics and
  deterministic chaos.
• Emergent phenomena and the possibility of their
  synthesis.
• Fractal theory as a solution to the problem of
  part / whole (introduction to theories and their
  applications).
• The overarching theory of philosophy of science
  (introduction to the basic philosophical systems
  that deal with scientific knowledge).

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Ideas

• General Psychology
• Transportation Psychology
• Operator Control
• Reaction time
• (reaction time to stimuli and attention payd to
  the another stimuli)
• Psychology in AI
• Methodology of Research
• Measuring of the time estimation due different
  activities
• Creativity and innovation

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Sylabus

1. Introduction
2. General psychology Cognition
3. General psychology Emotions
4. Operator Control
5. Transportation Psychology
6. Methodology of Research
7. Psychology in AI
8. Creativity and innovation

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Schedule

• Terms Wednesday Lectures from 1315 to
  1445 Lab Afrom 1315 to 1445, Lab A from
  1500 to 1630. Place lab 109, Dejvice
• 13.2. - Introduction, Cognitive psychology I
  (Lecture) 20.2. - Cognitive psychology II,
  Psychology of emotions and motivation
  (Lecture). 27.2. - LAB 1 - General
  psychology 6.3. - LAB 1 - General
  psychology 13.3. - LAB 1 - General
  psychology 20.3. - LAB 1 - General
  psychology 27.3. - Operator Control
  (Lecture) 3.4. - LAB 2 - Engineering
  psychology 10.4. - LAB 2 - Engineering
  psychology 17.4. - LAB 2 - Engineering
  psychology 24.4. - LAB 2 - Engineering
  psychology 9.5.(Fr.) - Final test 14.5.(Th.) -
  Creative design (Lecture) 

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LAB Schedule
LAB 1 - General psychology LAB 1 - General psychology LAB 1 - General psychology LAB 1 - General psychology LAB 1 - General psychology
Task 27.2. 6.3. 13.3. 20.3.
Afterimage G1 G4 G3 G2
Skin sensitivity G2 G1 G4 G3
Weber law G3 G2 G1 G4
Fechner law G4 G3 G2 G1
LAB 2 - Engineering psychology LAB 2 - Engineering psychology LAB 2 - Engineering psychology LAB 2 - Engineering psychology LAB 2 - Engineering psychology
Task 3.4. 10.4. 17.4. 24.4.
Reaction time G1 G4 G3 G2
Indicator evaluation G2 G1 G4 G3
EDA G3 G2 G1 G4
Car driver analysis G4 G3 G2 G1
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Model of humane operator control
Operator
Sensoric processes
Motoric processes
Internal proceses
Sensation Perception
Behaviour, Motoric func.
Thinking, decision making, problem solving.
Handlers
Pilot lamps
Controled system
Aktors
Sensors
Functionla principles of controled sys.
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Cognitive model of the operator