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Title Evaluation of rail technology [electronic resource] : a practical human factors guide / edited by Chris Bearman ... [et al.].

Imprint Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., c2013.

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Description xiv, 313 p. : ill.
Series Human factors in road and rail transport
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Promise and Perils of New Technology / Drew Dawson, Chris Bearman, Anjum Naweed and Gareth Hughes -- Key Technology-Related Human Factors Issues / Chris Bearman -- Resistence to Technology / Janette Rose and Chris Bearman -- Effective User Feedback : the Practical Value of Mock-Ups / Gareth Hughes, Airdrie Long, Anne Maddock and Chris Bearman -- Qualitative Research Rules, Using Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods to Acknowledge the Human Dimensions of Technology / Kirrilly Thompson -- Future Inquiry: a Participatory Ergonomics Approach to Evaluating New Technology / Verna Blewitt and Andrea Shaw -- Using Task Analysis to Inform the Development and Evaluation of New Technologies / Janette Rose, Chris Bearman and Anjum Naweed -- Evaluating Your Train Simulator Part I: The Physical Environment / Anjum Naweed, Ganesh Balakrishnan and Jillian Dorrian -- Evaluating Your Train Simulator Part II: the Task Environment / Jillian Dorrian and Anjum Naweed -- Applying the Theories and Measures of Situation Awareness to the Rail Industry / Janette Rose, Chris Bearman and Anne Maddock.
Summary "Currently, the rail industry lacks a standardized approach to the human factors evaluation of new technologies in operational settings. While a number of human factors evaluation methods exist (such as task analysis, situation awareness measures, quasi-experiments), these are rarely tailored to the industry's needs. This book fills that gap by developing a toolkit of methods that can be used by people in the rail industry to evaluate the human factors implications of new technologies"--Provided by publisher.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Railroads -- Management -- Technological innovations.
Railroads -- Technological innovations -- Evaluation.
Railroads -- Safety measures.
Human engineering.
Information technology -- Psychological aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bearman, Chris.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781409442431 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781409442448 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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