Copyright 1998. David Gilmore, Elizabeth Churchill, & Frank Ritter

Introduction To Human Factors

Lecture Note Contents

G6DIHF Autumn 1997

These lectures and notes derive from work over the past 5 - 10 years by David Gilmore and Elizabeth Churchill.

Edited and expanded 1997 by Frank E. Ritter

Frank.Ritter@nottingham.ac.uk, 441 Psyc, x15291


Discovering Human factors

Lecture 0 (06/10/97): Kegworth and demonstration of knowledge

Lecture 1 (13/10/97): What is Human Factors?

Lecture 2 (20/10/97): Why Do We Need Human Factors?

Lecture 3 (27/10/97): User Characteristics


Psychological Phenomena

Lecture 4 (03/11/97): Basic Psychology for Human Factors

Lecture 5 (10/11/97): Memory, Attention and Learning

Lecture 6 (17/11/97): Language, Problem-solving, Social and Organisational Effects


Techniques for Human Factors

Lecture 7 (24/11/97): Task Analysis and Analytic Evaluation

Lecture 8 (01/12/97): Prototyping and Empirical Evaluation

Lecture 9 (08/12/97): Cognitive Dimensions

Review session (15/12/97): Questions from the audience and remaining topics


Extra Course Materials

The Nature of Design

Models of Human Information Processing

References/Reading List

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