A Student\u27S Guide To Hci Research And Database Development

This paper is intended to provide a useful guide and reference for those students (or researchers) attempting to familiarize themselves with the large body of HCI research available. This paper discusses trends, labs, funding sources, implications, and major contributions to HCI over the past decade (1995-2005) as documented through the British Journal of Behaviour & Information Technology. Several graphs are provided to illustrate patterns of interest and publication of HCI research with step-by-step guidance for the overwhelmed student (or researcher) for everything from narrowing relevant HCI journals and articles to a sampling of funding sources. All in the hope of providing a guide to understanding what has been done in the field, where to get started, and the direction HCI research may be going in the future

Exploration of the Factor Structure and Internal Consistency of the Aggressive Driving Behavior Questionnaire (ADBQ)

The present investigation is part of a series of studies to develop a questionnaire for assessing propensity to engage in aggressive driving behavior. The 20-item Aggressive Driving Behavior Questionnaire (ADBQ) was administered to a sample of 495 college students from two universities. The data were factor analyzed, yielding six factors accounting for 56% of the variance and representing distinct aspects of aggressive driving. The ADBQ was also found to have a high internal consistency (Cronbach\u27s alpha = .77). Directions for future development and validation of the ADBQ are discussed. Copyright 2011 by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Inc. All rights reserved

On the parameters of a class of narrow sense primitive BCH codes

The last decades, mark an accelerated progression in the determination of the parameters of the primitive BCH codes. Indeed, BCH codes are powerful in terms of decoding. They are applied in several fields such as: satellite communications, cryptography, compact disk drives... and have good structural properties. Nevertheless, the dimension and the minimum distance of those codes aren't known, in general. In this paper, we present a class of narrow sense primitive BCH codes of designed distance $\delta_{_4}=(q-1)q^{^{m-1}}-1-q^{\lfloor \frac{m+3}{2 }\rfloor}.$ Also, we investigate their Bose distance and the dimension

A Theoretical Framework Of A Bionomic Approach To Improve Individual And Organizational Outcomes

Human Factors often attempts to combat the effects of stress on human productivity through such tools as, automation, ergonomics, and training in the workplace but traditional human factors routes may not always be sufficient. Some organizations (e.g., military and civilian) may always suffer some degree of stress which may inadvertently disturb personal individual outcomes and resultant organizational outcomes, traditionally of macroergonomic concern. Positive bionomic effects on humans are well documented in other fields and being introduced here for consideration as a viable resource, possibly supplement, to traditional human factors/macroergonomic tools. Two models of this bionomic theory for human factors applications are presented for improving individual and organizational, physical, psychological, and social outcomes

Reported Behavior To Hypothetical Hurricane Warnings: Examining The Importance Of Warning Content

The current study examined the factors of importance when deciding actions to take when a hurricane warning has been issued. Self-reports were made by participants related to predicted behavior to each of 16 vignettes describing a hurricane scenario. In addition, reports of what each participant felt others would behave were also collected. Results showed four variables (strength of storm, estimated time of arrival, current weather, and number of false alarm warnings) were significant predictors of all three self-reported behaviors (evacuate, prepare but don\u27t evacuate, and do nothing) and two of the predicted behavior of others (evacuate and do nothing). The results are discussed in terms of hurricane warning content

Reported Behavior to Hypothetical Hurricane Warnings: Examining the Importance of Warning Content

The current study examined the factors of importance when deciding actions to take when a hurricane warning has been issued. Self-reports were made by participants related to predicted behavior to each of 16 vignettes describing a hurricane scenario. In addition, reports of what each participant felt others would behave were also collected. Results showed four variables (strength of storm, estimated time of arrival, current weather, and number of false alarm warnings) were significant predictors of all three self-reported behaviors (evacuate, prepare but don\u27t evacuate, and do nothing) and two of the predicted behavior of others (evacuate and do nothing). The results are discussed in terms of hurricane warning content

A Descriptive Framework For The Evaluation Of Stress Effects On Operator Performance

In this paper we provide a general descriptive framework that relates the action of stress on operator performance capacity. The key advantage of our approach is that it allows us to capture simultaneously the influences of both physical and cognitive forms of stress and their singular and interactive effects on response efficiency. This is accomplished within the model since we propose that response processes to physiological challenge and psychological challenge are fundamentally identical in their mode of operation. By considering the commonalities of brain function with the response processes of other organs of the body, we can now use the extensive existing body of physiological insight to provide us with guiding principles to explore undoubtedly more complex cognitive responses to stress. This descriptive framework represents the foundation upon which a fully articulated theory of stress and performance is being erected

Effects Of Age And Expertise On Pilot Performance: Support For Performance Based Retirement Criteria

At any given chronological age, an individual may appear to be older or younger in various areas or aspects of aging. Ambiguity of age as a reliable indicator of gerontological changes has led to the derivation of the concept of functional age, which accommodates the fact that persons age at different rates along different dimensions (Gerathewohl, 1977; Gerathewohl, 1978a). Four groups of participants were required to conduct this study ; young pilots, young non-pilots, elderly pilots, and elderly non-pilots. Our research found a great deal of variability within all four groups. Although differences due to age clearly exist, the results of this research indicate that experience does matter with regard to pilot performance. Experience as a pilot appears to mediate performance and offset some of the deleterious detriments that occur as a result of aging