Human-computer interaction and operators' performance:optimizing work design with activity theory

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: (Grigoriĭ Zakharovich); Karwowski Waldemar, 1953-; Bednyĭ G. Z.
Published: CRC Press,
Publisher Address: Boca Raton, FL
Publication Dates: c2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Ergonomics design and management : theory and applications
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Carrier Form: xviii, 443 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781439836262 (alk. paper)
1439836264 (alk. paper)
Index Number: B84
CLC: B84
TP11-05
Call Number: TP11-05/H918
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. Activity in studying performance. Introduction to applied systemic-structural activity theory ; The relationship between external and internal aspects in activity theory and its importance in the study of human work -- pt. II. Human-computer interaction. Task concept and its major attributes in ergonomics and psychology ; Task concept in production and nonproduction environments ; Microgenetic principles in the study of computer-based tasks ; Abandoned actions reveal design flaws : an illustration by a Web-survey task -- pt. III. Evaluation of computer users' psychophysiological functional state. Optimization of human.