CONTEMPORARY PERIOD IN DOMESTIC ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT
V.A. Bodrov
Honoured Science and Engineering Worker, M.D, professor, leading research assistant, Institute
of Psychology, RAS, Moscow
Main approaches and results of domestic researches in the sphere of engineering
psychology for the period from 2000 to present days are presented. The analysis of researches in
methodology and theory of engineering psychology and related sciences as well as in study and
optimization of man’s professional activity in complex systems’ management, engineering -and psychological (ergonomics) designing of ergatic systems, psychological characteristics of subject
of labor is conducted. Contribution of concrete scientists to different engineering psychology
tasks’ solving and their results’ implementation is shown. Trends and problems of perspective
researches in the sphere of engineering psychology and ergonomics are defined.
Key words: engineering psychology, ergonomics, subject of labor, analysis of activity,
engineering and psychological designing, models of activity, vocational aptitude, functional
states.