Description
This textbook comprehensively introduces readers to the cutting-edge field of human factors psychology, offering real-world examples illustrating how experimental findings can be used to improve the design of tools and environments that we use every day. The revised second edition provides updated text, examples, pedagogical boxes, and references.
Features:
- Showcases pedagogical boxes that end with thought questions to encourage student processing and application of the material
- Includes instructor materials such as PowerPoint slides, activities, and exam items to facilitate teaching for instructors who are new to the course
- Presents theoretical and practical implications of applying psychology to design with the use of examples
- Discusses anthropometric tools, anthropometric data collection methods, hand biomechanics, and hand tools
- Highlights diversity and inclusion with applications to the special population section in each cha
