FDA066/HMI503. Human Factors Research Methodology and
Field Experimentation, 5p
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| Instructor |
Fang Chen IKP/LITH, fanch@ikp.liu.se
Examinator Kjell Ohlsson. |
| Semester |
Fall 2002, It will start week No 39 and be given on Tuesdays
until December 17, 9.00-12.00. |
| Prerequisites |
Graduate Student status or advanced undergraduate. |
| Goals |
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| Content |
- Ethics in research
- Field experimentation
- Laboratory versus field research
- Quasi-experimental design
- Validity and reliability of measurement.
- Critique of scientific articles.
- Various methods for studying human performance and collecting data
including
- use of behavioral taxonomies
- task analysis
- system analysis
- verbal protocols
- questionnaires
- surveys
- scaling
- psychophysics.
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| Literature |
- Cook, T.D. , and Campbell, D.T. (1979). Quasi-Experimentation: Design
& Analysis Issues for Field Settings. Houghton Mifflin Company,
U.S.A.
- Wilson, J.R. ,and Corlett, E.N. (Eds.) (1995). Evaluation of Human
Work - A practical ergonomics methodology. Taylor & Francis, Great
Britain.
- Research articles
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| Examination |
Home works, Two written tests |
| Other |
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