Emerging Needs and Opportunities for Human Factors Research

This book identifies areas that represent new needs and opportunities for human factors research in the coming decades. It is forward-looking, problem oriented, and selectively focused on national or global problems, including productivity in organizations, education and training, employment and disabilities, health care, and environmental change; technology issues, including communications technology and telenetworking, information access and usability, emerging technologies, automation, and flexible manufacturing, and advanced transportation systems; and human performance, including cognitive performance under stress and aiding intellectual work.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Executive Summary
• Part I: Summary Report
• Part II: Background Papers
• 1 Productivity in Organizations
• 2 Training and Education
• 3 Employment and Disabilities
• 4 Health Care
• 5 Environmental Change
• 6 Communication Technology and Telenetworking
• 7 Information Access and Usability
• 8 Emerging Technologies in Work Design
• 9 Transportation
• 10 Cognitive Performance Under Stress
• 11 Aiding Intellectual Work