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This technical document discusses cockpit measurements and their relation to various body sizes and proportions. An annotated bibliography with links to cited fulltext documents is included.
Weekly issues provided by Roger Hughes, President, Decoding Human Factors, Inc. that provide articles dealing with the all important subject of human factors.
This site identifies 94 potential cockpit automation issues and provides a searchable database of over 1000 records including accidents, experiments, surveys, and observational studies.
This site provides full-text technical reports and conference papers dealing with human factors research. Included are several International Symposium on Aviation Psychology conferences as well as Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting proceedings.
Official homepage of the HFES. Click on Publications to view the tables of contents from several journal titles or use the "Search" function to search a topic or author. ERAU affiliates may contact the Hunt Library for information on obtaining full text.
From NASA Ames Research Center, this site describes the current research activities of the Human Systems Integration Division involving human performance, technology design, and human-computer interaction.
Developed by Eurocontrol, ICAO, Flight Safety Foundation and U.K. Flight Safety Committee, Skybrary focuses on the operational risks of global flight operations for commercial air transport. Click on Operators Guide to Human Factors in Aviation under "Toolkits" for a comprehensive library of resources for safety managers. Includes selected accident reports; enter air carrier name in the Skybrary search box.
To engender lively conversation concerning the field of human factors. This includes topical news items, academic publications, and historical interest. Blog moderators are Richard Pak (Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clemson University) and Anne Collins McLaughlin (Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University in the Department of Psychology).