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Course Catalog 01/02


Human Work Science

ARP004 Man-Machine Interaction II 6.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:


LANGUAGE:English/Swedish

EXAMINER
Mats Danielsson Univ adj


PREREQUISITES
Psychology and Sociology (ARP005)

COURSE AIM
The aim of the course is to make the students familiar with psychological theories, conceptions and methods and their applications within the field of man-machine interaction. The knowledge may be applied to the design of systems that combines efficiency with user friendliness and a good work environment with special emphasis on different conditions among users in terms of age and gender.

CONTENTS
Introduction (6%). The relation between cognitive ergonomics and cognitive psychology. Summary of man-machine studies. Theories of information processing.
Psychological process (66%). Stress and coping. Signal detection. Decision making and judgement processes. Memory. Skill acquisition. The psychology of language. Mental models.
Principles of design (28%). Application of cognitive psychology to the analysis of user interfaces of information systems. Operating highly automatic processes. Decision support system.


TEACHING
Lectures, seminars, and compulsory laboratory work and assignments.

EXAMINATION
Written examination. Laboratory work and assignments are mandatory. Correction of examination according to alternative A in ÒRegler för tentamenÓ.
COURSE GRADE SCALE: Fail, 3, 4, 5

ITEMS/CREDITS
Required assignment 3.00ECTS
Written exam 3.00ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Wickens: Engineering and Human Performance Harper Collins Publishers 1992.
Further material will be presented later (about 100 sidor).


Valid for the academic year 01/02.

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