Engineering Psychology

1. Engineering Psychology EngineeringPsychology cognitive psychology – creativity design – transportation psychology–Operator Control operator control – HMI – visualisation of information – work&organisation psychology – theories of personality http://users.fs.cvut.cz/~jurajaku/ing-psych Jakub Jura Jakub.Jura@fs.cvut.cz http://users.fs.cvut.cz/~jurajaku

2. What is Psychology? • Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes. • Disciplines • General Psychology • Social Psychology • Developmental Psychology • Psychology of Personality • Psychometrics • Psychosemantics • Clinical PsychologyPsychotherapy

3. What is Engineering psychology? • Psychological approach to the solution of technical problems. • Engineering Psychology is mutidisciplinary science. • Engineering Psychology is concerned with adapting the equipment and environment to people, based upon their psychological capacities and limitations (Blum, 1952)  Engineering Psychology is concerned with adapting the equipment and environment to people, based upon their psychological capacities and limitations (Blum, 1952) • Roots: • Army psychology • Ergonomics  • Transportation psychology • Personnel psychology

4. Problems Creative design (inventions, innovations) aviation (altimeter - misreading error) munitions factories (First World War) • Human resources • Testing - Selecting • Training Adaptation of technical equipments to human operator nuclear industry (Černobyl, Three Mile Island) transportation (speed merchant)

5. Sylabus • Engineering psychology fundamentals (history, principles, applications). • Casuistics of use some use of engineering psychology. • Bionics fundamentals (classic cases and applications). • Cognitive science fundamentals - a demonstration of a multidisciplinary approach in science. • Basic knowledge of psychology and philosophy of integrated CS (mind-body problem, cognitive psychology, structuralism, gestaltism). • Basic knowledge of linguistics and neuroscience integrated in CS (neuropsychology of language functions, biolingvistics). • Multiagent systems (the path from a centralized to a distributed approach). • Knowledge ontology of multiagent systems. • Holonic systems (the path from the multi-agent approach to the holonic problems, production fractaling). • System approach and system dynamics and deterministic chaos. • Emergent phenomena and the possibility of their synthesis. • Fractal theory as a solution to the problem of part / whole (introduction to theories and their applications). • The overarching theory of philosophy of science (introduction to the basic philosophical systems that deal with scientific knowledge).

6. Ideas • General Psychology • Transportation Psychology • Operator Control • Reaction time • (reaction time to stimuli and attention payd to the another stimuli) • Psychology in AI • Methodology of Research • Measuring of the time estimation due different activities • Creativity and innovation

7. Sylabus • Introduction • General psychology – Cognition • General psychology – Emotions • Operator Control • Transportation Psychology • Methodology of Research • Psychology in AI • Creativity and innovation