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Because of "human errors," psychologists were asked to help engineers produce machines which required less of the man and which, at the same time, exploited his special abilities. Psychologists, with the help of anatomists, physiologists and engineers "started a new inter-discipline aimed at better machine design and called variously human engineering, biomechanics, psychotechnology, or engineering psychology." The engineering psychologist: (1) studies the psychology of the human as a system component; (2) assists the engineer in experimentally evaluating prototype man-machine systems; and (3) cooperates actively with engineers in the design of machines. Some day "psychology, biology, and physics will… all employ the same physicomathematical metalanguage when describing the behavior of those particular system components which fall within their purview." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
