Engineering%20Psychology

1
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
2
Course website

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

Try to find by google ING PSYCH
3
What is Psychology?

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

4
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

5
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) 
6
LAB TASKS

• Afterimage (Emmer law)
• Skin sensitivity
• Weber law
• Fechner law
• Reaction time (RT)
• Indicator evaluation and testing
• EDA (Electro-Dermal Activities)
• Car driver analysis

7
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
Outputs
Inputs
Functionla principles of controled sys.
8
Cognitive model of the operator
9
BIOCYS

• Biocybernetic Analysis System (BIOCYS) for HMI
  (Han Machine Interface) - related cognitive
  factor analysis
• Measuring of biological variables as a EEG, EMG,
  EDA ...
• Analysis of the data (expert system)
• Incorporating new information in whole control
  system.

10
Cognitive model for HMI design
11
Creative conceptul design
12
(No Transcript)
13
Operator selection (testing)

• Computer adaptive
• testing