Topic:-Human Factors

Order Discription. Paper details: he majority of people think that all psychologists are clinical psychologists- Of course. this is not the case. As you learned at the beginning of the semester. there are many divisions of psychology. of which human factors is just one. The Weiten book does not talk about human factors. which is an area of study in psychology that incorporates engineering/design: so. for this assignment. which is based on an exercise developed by the Institute for Health Care Improvement. you will be learning more about human factors psychology (often called human factors engineering), identifying 2 human factors issues (one from a personal and one from a public setting), explaining how the problems contribute to errors. developing strategies to minimize or prevent these errors. and sharing this information with the class. Read the information on the Perception and Human Factors web page to learn what human factors is and how it relates to perception. [httpz/lwwwvisualexpertcom/why.html] Read the information on the Human Error vs Design Error web page to get some ideas about poor human factors designs- (You are not allowed to use any of these ideas for your forum assignment and must think of other poor designs that you personally have encountered.) [httpz/lwwwvisualexpertcom lResources/humanvsdesignerror.html] Personal Setting - Look around your house and car and: Analyze and describe. in detail. a poor human factors design that you observe- (Do not report on a poor design that was on the websites mentioned above. like the stove knob or light switch. The poor design must be something that you have had personal experience with this semester. In addition. you should not discuss something that was installed incorrectly. It needs to be purposefully designed in a manner that could use improvement.) Explain. in detail. what types of errors might occur because of this poor design. (Think about how a new person might make more errors because of the poor design than the experienced user who is used to working with the poor design. Also. consider how even the experienced user might make mistakes when distracted or fatigued.) Develop a better design that takes into account the natural perceptual tendencies and abilities of humans- ( For this assignment. you need to create a solution that has not yet been implemented. Also understand that human factors psychologists would use scientific research to test their new designs before implementation. something you are not doing for this assignment.) Describe this new design in detail and explain how it will increase usability- Public Setting - Next. visit a restaurant. coffee shop. transportation system. retail store. hotel. Zeiéémajor intersection. library. or health care setting. and: Analyze and describe. in detail. a poor human factors design that you observe- (Do not report on a poor design that was on the websites mentioned above. like the stove knob or light switch. The poor design must be something that you have had personal experience with this semester. In addition. you should not discuss something that was installed incorrectly. It needs to be purposefully designed in a manner that could use improvement.) Explain. in detail. what types of errors might occur because of this poor design. (Think about how a new person might make more errors because of the poor design than the experienced user who is used to working with the poor design. Also. consider how even the experienced user might make mistakes when distracted or fatigued.) Develop a better design that takes into account the natural perceptual tendencies and abilities of humans- ( For this assignment. you need to create a solution that has not yet been implemented. Also understand that human factors psychologists would use scientific research to test their new designs before implementation. something you are not doing for this assignment.) Describe this new design in detail and explain how it will increase usability-