Engineering Psychology
Engineering Psychology
cognitive psychology – creativity design – transportation psychology – Operator Control
operator control – HMI – visualisation of information – work&organisation psychology –
theories of personality
Jakub Jura
Jakub.Jura@fs.cvut.cz
http://users.fs.cvut.cz/~jurajaku
Course website
• http://users.fs.cvut.cz/~jurajaku/ing-psych/
What is Psychology?
• Psychology is the science of behavior and mental
processes.
• Disciplines
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General Psychology
Social Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Psychology of Personality
Psychometrics
Psychosemantics
Clinical Psychology
Psychotherapy
What is Engineering psychology?
• Psychological approach to the solution of technical
problems.
• Engineering Psychology is mutidisciplinary science.
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Engineering Psychology is concerned with adapting the equipment and environment to people, based upon their
psychological capacities and limitations (Blum, 1952)
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Army psychology
Ergonomics
Transportation psychology
Personnel psychology
Experimental psychology
Problems
Creative design
(inventions, innovations)
aviation
(altimeter - misreading error )
munitions factories
(First World War)
nuclear industry
transportation
(speed merchant)
(Černobyl, Three Mile Island )
Artificial intelligence
(MAS, UNS)
LAB TASKS
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Afterimage (Emmer law)
Skin sensitivity
Weber law
Fechner law
Reaction time
Indicator evaluation
EDA (Electro-Dermal Activities)
Car driver analysis
Schedule
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Terms: Wednesday
Lectures: from 14:15 to 15:45
Lab A:from 13:15 to 14:45,
Lab B: from 15:00 to 16:30.
Place: lab 109, Dejvice
13.2. - Introduction, Cognitive psychology I (Lecture)
20.2. - Cognitive psychology II, Psychology of emotions and motivation (Lecture).
27.2. - LAB 1 - General psychology
6.3. - LAB 1 - General psychology
13.3. - LAB 1 - General psychology
20.3. - LAB 1 - General psychology
27.3. - Operator Control (Lecture)
3.4. - LAB 2 - Engineering psychology
10.4. - LAB 2 - Engineering psychology
17.4. - LAB 2 - Engineering psychology
24.4. - LAB 2 - Engineering psychology
9.5.(Fr.) - Final test
14.5.(Th.) - Creative design (Lecture)
Model of humane operator control
Operator
Sensoric Internal proceses Motoric
processes
processes
Sensation
Perception
Thinking,
decision making,
problem solving.
Behaviour,
Motoric func.
Handlers
Pilot lamps
Controled system
Aktors
Functionla
principles of
controled sys.
Sensors
Cognitive model of the operator
BIOCYS
Cognitive model for HMI design
Identification of operator’s tiredness
Support of creative conceptual design