Human factors/ergonomics (HFE) as a discipline has grown by accretions rather than having been developed systematically and deliberately. Therefore, this book's goal creates a formal conceptual structure for HFE. It is intended as a contribution to cultural history because (a) ours is a technological civilization, and (b) one cannot understand technology outside of the various disciplines that make up that technology. A disciplinary history is highly specialized, but the author maintains that HFE is distinctive in being the only discipline that relates humans to technology. Other behavioral disciplines like anthropology have little connection with technology, and this is what makes HFE important in the present historical era.
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...the book as a whole is best characterized as a series of essays that can be read independently, but that fit together to provide an interesting and intellectually stimulating journey. This journey examines the roots of our profession and provides a uniquely holistic examination of HFE.
—Transportation Human Factors
If human factors professionals want to take stock, determine new directions, or simply reassess career status and meaningfulness, then reading this contemplative book is a must. It is ideally suited for senior graduate student HF/E seminars. Some HF/E professionals undoubtedly will view it as thought-provoking and stimulating and others as a good directional pacesetter for our discipline.
—Ergonomics in Design
...Meister has again, as Alluisi wrote, 'performed a useful service,' and more of one, I suggest, than to be found in some ergonomics texts.
—Contemporary Psychology
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- Human Factors: Theory and Practice (Wiley series in human factors) by David Meister on 6 pages
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- Industrial Psychology (Work Series) by Charles S. Myers on page 159
- The Industrial Revolution (Events and Outcomes) by Nigel Smith in Back Matter
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