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

"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 t...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Human factors in road and rail transport
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Physical Description:xiv, 313 p. :; ill.
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245 0 0 |a Evaluation of rail technology  |h [electronic resource] :  |b a practical human factors guide /  |c edited by Chris Bearman ... [et al.]. 
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300 |a xiv, 313 p. :  |b ill. 
440 0 |a Human factors in road and rail transport 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "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. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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650 0 |a Railroads  |x Safety measures. 
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