Human-System Integration in the System Development Process: A New Look

by Committee on Human Factors, National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

In April 1991 BusinessWeek ran a cover story entitled, "I Can't Work This ?# @ Thing," about the difficulties many people have with consumer products, such as cell phones and VCRs. More than 15 years later, the situation is much the same--but at a very different level of scale. The disconnect between people and technology has had society-wide consequences in the large-scale system accidents from major human error, such as those at Three Mile...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309107202
• ISBN13: 9780309107204
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.