Modeling human-system interaction : philosophical and methodological considerations, with examples /: philosophical and methodological considerations, with examples. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thomas B. Sheridan.
• Authors: Sheridan, Thomas B
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Knowledge -- Gaining New Knowledge -- Scientific Method: What Is It? -- Further Observations on the Scientific Method -- Reasoning Logically -- Public (Objective) and Private (Subjective) Knowledge -- The Role of Doubt in Doing Science -- Evidence: Its use and Avoidance -- Metaphysics and its Relation to Science -- Objectivity, Advocacy, and Bias -- Analogy and Metaphor -- 2. What is a Model? -- Defining "Model" -- Model Attributes: A New Taxonomy -- Examples of Models in Terms of the Attributes -- Why Make the Effort to Model? -- Attribute Considerations in Making Models Useful -- Social Choice -- What Models are Not -- 3. Important Distinctions in Modeling -- Objective and Subjective Models -- Simple and Complex Models -- Descriptive and Prescriptive (Normative) Models -- Static and Dynamic Models -- Deterministic and Probabilistic Models -- Hierarchy of Abstraction -- Some Philosophical Perspectives -- 4. Forms of Representation -- Verbal Models -- Graphs -- Maps -- Schematic Diagrams -- Logic Diagrams -- Crisp Versus Fuzzy Logic (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of Fuzzy Logic") -- Symbolic Statements and Statistical Inference (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of Statistical Inference From Evidence") -- 5. Acquiring Information -- Information Communication (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of Information Communication") -- Information Value (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of Information Value") -- Logarithmic-Like Psychophysical Scales -- Perception Process (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of the Brunswik/Kirlik Perception Model") -- Attention -- Visual Sampling (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of How Often to Sample") -- Signal Detection (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of Signal Detection") -- Situation Awareness -- Mental Workload (see also Appendix, Section "Research Questions Concerning Mental Workload") -- Experiencing What is Virtual: New Demands for Human-System Modeling (see also Appendix, Section "Behavior Research Issues in Virtual Reality") -- 6. Analyzing the Information -- Task Analysis -- Judgment Calibration -- Valuation/Utility (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of Human Judgment of Utility") -- Risk and Resilience -- Definition of Risk -- Meaning of Resilience -- Trust -- 7. Deciding on Action -- What is Achievable -- Decision Under Condition of Certainty (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of Decisions Under Certainty") -- Decision Under Condition of Uncertainty (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of Decisions Under Uncertainty") -- Competitive Decisions: Game Models (see also Appendix "Mathematics of Game Models") -- Order of Subtask Execution -- 8. Implementing and Evaluating the Action -- Time to Make a Selection -- Time to Make an Accurate Movement -- Continuous Feedback Control (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of Continuous Feedback Control") -- Looking Ahead (Preview Control) (see also Appendix, Section "Mathematics of Preview Control") -- Delayed Feedback -- Control by Continuously Updating an Internal Model (see also Appendix, Section "Stepping Through the Kalman Filter System") -- Expectation of Team Response Time -- Human Error -- 9. Human-Automation Interaction -- Human-Automation Allocation -- Supervisory Control -- Trading and Sharing -- Adaptive/Adaptable Control -- Model-Based Failure Detection -- 10. Mental Models -- What is a Mental Model? -- Background of Research on Mental Models -- ACT-R -- Lattice Characterization of a Mental Model -- Neuronal Packet Network as a Model of Understanding -- Modeling of Aircraft Pilot Decision-Making Under Time Stress -- Mutual Compatibility of Mental, Display, Control, and Computer Models -- 11. Can Cognitive Engineering Modeling Contribute to Modeling Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems? -- Basic Questions -- What Large-Scale Social Systems are we Talking About? -- What Models? -- Potential of Feedback Control Modeling of Large-Scale Societal Systems -- The STAMP Model for Assessing Errors in Large-Scale Systems -- Past World Modeling Efforts -- Toward Broader Participation -- APPENDIX -- Mathematics of Fuzzy Logic -- Mathematics of Statistical Inference from Evidence -- Mathematics of Information Communication -- Mathematics of Information Value -- Mathematics of the Brunswik/Kirlik Perception Model -- Mathematics of How Often to Sample -- Mathematics of Signal Detection -- Research Questions Concerning Mental Workload -- Behavior Research Issues in Virtual Reality -- Mathematics of Human Judgment of Utility -- Mathematics of Decisions Under Certainty -- Mathematics of Decisions Under Uncertainty -- Mathematics of Game Models -- Mathematics of Continuous Feedback Control -- Mathematics of Preview Control -- Stepping Through the Kalman Filter System.
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 004.01/9; Human-computer interaction; User-centered system design; COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy; COMPUTERS -- Computer Science; COMPUTERS -- Data Processing; COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General; COMPUTERS -- Information Technology; COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory; COMPUTERS -- Reference; Human-computer interaction; User-centered system design; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119275299; 1119275296; 9781119275282; 1119275288; 9781119275275
• Related ISBNs: 111927527X; 9781119275268; 1119275261
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index.; Note: Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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