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

Lecture 4: Basic Psychology for Human Factors

Models of the Human Operator

The Senses

Sensation: Physiological issues


Visual Perception

Physiology of vision

Vision and the measurement of light

Colour vision

Flicker

Age


Various approaches to vision

Higher level issues in visual perception

Movement and spatial perception

Depth cues

Perceptual organisation


The Auditory System

Measuring sounds

Localisation of sound

Discriminating percepts

Alarm systems


Touch

Taste and Smell

Haptic Perception


Information Processing


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