Final Flashcards

1
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Three main reasons for human factors engineering.

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Safety, Performance, Satisfaction

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2
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HF Design Process

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Create Evaluate Understand

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3
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Task Design

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Changing what operators do

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4
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Equipment Design

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Changing equipment people work with

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5
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Environmental Design

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Changing environment where work is done

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6
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Training

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Enhancing knowledge and skills

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7
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Selection

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Picking people suited for the task

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8
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Team and organization design

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Group communication and organizational climate

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9
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Systems Thinking

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Interconnection, adaptation, environment

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10
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UI

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Design of GUI

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11
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UX

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GUI and user interaction with the system

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12
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System Design Processes

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VEE, Plan-Do-Check-Act-Cycle, Scrum

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13
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Independent variables

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Variables being changed

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14
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Dependent variables

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Variables to be studied

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15
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Confounding variables

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Outside influences on results

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16
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Within-subject

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All subjects receive all levels of IV

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17
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Between-subject

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Every level of IV has different subjects

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18
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Type I error =

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False positive

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19
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Type II error =

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False-negative

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20
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p-values issues

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Forces binary thinking, not representative of effect size

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21
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p-value alternatives

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Confidence intervals, effect sizes, Bayestian

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22
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Luminance vs brightness

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Luminance is the intensity of photons, brightness is the perceived amount of light

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23
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Fovea

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The central area of the eye is almost exclusively of cones

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24
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Cones

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Perceive color

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25
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Rods

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Perceive BW and brightness

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26
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Ciliary body

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Muscles that adjust the lens

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27
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Order of cones by wavelength

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S (blue), M (green), L (red)

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28
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Top-down processing

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Experience and knowledge

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29
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Bottom-up processing

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Stimulus from the words

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30
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Signal Detection Theory

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Hit | False Alarm
______|________________
Miss |Correct reject

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31
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Ways to improve ROC curve

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Different discrimination, sensitivity

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32
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Affordances

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Possible interactions between user and object

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33
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Gestalt Grouping types

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Proximity, similarity, continuity, symmetry, area, closure

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34
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Common fate

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Items moving together will be perceived as a unit

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35
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Figure ground

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People perceive items as in the foreground or in the background

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36
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Sound envelope

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Attack, sustain, decay

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37
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Timbre

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Fundamental frequency and multiple harmonics

38
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Malleus, Incus, Stapes

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Middle ear bones

39
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Cochlea

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Made up of organ of corti

40
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Organ of corti

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Lots of little hairs moved by membrane that generate electrical signals

41
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Loudness

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Perception of sound intensity

42
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Temporary Threshold Shift

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Ears temporarily attenuate sounds when in loud environment, takes time to recover

43
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Just noticeable difference (Weber’s Law)

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K= Constant, delta I= Change in intensity, I = Absolute level of intensity

44
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Alarm principles

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Heard over background, avoid excessive intensity, Should not startle, doesn’t disrupt processing of other signals, Is information and not confusing

45
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Vestibular System

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Used for balance

46
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Motion sickness

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Comes from a disconnect between vestibular system and movement

47
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Cognitive bandwidth

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How quickly environment changes

48
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Cognitive Familiarity

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How often and for how long a person has experienced an environment

49
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Cognitive knowledge in the world

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Extent information is indicated by features in the environment

50
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Human Information Processing

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How resources are allocated between sensing, perception, cognition, response

51
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SEEV

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Salience, Effort, Expectancy, Value

52
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Perception formula

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S-Ef+Ex+V

53
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WM types

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Visuospatial sketchpad, Phonological loop, episodic buffer

54
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LTM types

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Semantic/declarative, episodic, procedural

55
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Multiple Resource Theory

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Mind has limited resources for processing. Different modalities can have different levels.

56
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Interruption lag

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Time required from old task until new task

57
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Fluency of return

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Rate that new task full attention is gained

58
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System 1

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Skill based, intuitive, Normative and Descriptive DM, more proficient

59
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System 2

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Knowledge based, analytic, Heuristics and Biases, less proficient

60
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Decision making stages

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Acquire and integrate, interpret and asses, plan and choose, monitor and correct

61
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SA

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Perception of elements in environment, comprehension of meaning, projection of their status in near future

62
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Fitts Law

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Response time predicted by distance between inputs and size of target

63
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Automation OOTLUF

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Poor detection, poor situation, skill lose when using automation

64
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Link analysis

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Study of movement between inputs

65
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Joint types

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Synovial- no tissue between joins
Fibrous- Connecting bones of skull with fibrous tissue
Cartilaginous- Intervertebral discs

66
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NIOSH Lifting Equation

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RWL= LC * HM * VM* DM * AM * FM * CM

LC: Load Constant
HM: Horizontal Multiplier
VM: Vertical Multiplier
DM: Distance Multiplier
AM: Asymmetric Multiplier
FM: Multiplier
CM: Coupling Multiplier

67
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Lifting Index

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> 3 high risk for low back injury

68
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Muscle types

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Smooth, cardiac, skeletal

69
Q

Rechargeable battery energy

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ATP

70
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Lactic acid

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Generated by anaerobic exercise

71
Q

Conversion ratio of chemical energy

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20% muscular work
80% heat

72
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Blood components

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Red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma

73
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Body fatigue over 8 hours if ______% of max aerobic capacity

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30-40%

74
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Stressors

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Environment, Physiological Arousal, Health, Experience

75
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Environmental stressors

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Motion, temperature, air quality

76
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Psychological stressors

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Cognitive appraisal, level of arousal

77
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Affects of overarousal

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Cognitive tunneling, WM loss, Strategic shifts

78
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Workload

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Time required/time available. Should be < .8

79
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Workload measurement

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Primary task measures, secondary task performance, loading tasks, physiological measures, subjective measures

80
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Origin of workman’s comp

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Triangle shirtwaist factory fire

81
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Workman’s comp

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Provide income and medical benefits, reduce court delays and costs, eliminate lawyer costs and trials/appeals, encourage employer interest in safety, promote study of accident causes

82
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OHSA vs NIOSH

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OSHA pubs industry standards, NIOSH makes recommendations to OSHA

83
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Accident predictors

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Age, gender, experience, stress/fatigue, job characteristics, illumination, noise and vibration, temperature and humidity

84
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Unintended erros

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Slips, lapse

85
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Intended errors

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Knowledge-based mistake, Rule-based mistake, violation

86
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Sign considerations

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Convery seriousness, describe hazard, hazard consequences, behavior to avoid

87
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Motivation potential

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TI: Task identity
SV: Skill variety
TS: Task significant
A: Autonomy
F: Feedback

88
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Performance support systems

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On job training.

89
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Cognitive load theory

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Learner attention divided by Intrinsic load (Workload imposed by task to be learned), Germane Load (Demand for resources necessary to learn task), Extraneous Load (Unrelated demands)

90
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Complexity

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Feedback loops, interconnected subsystems, unexpected interactions

91
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Coupling

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Tight connection between subsystems, something affecting one impacts another

92
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