The subject of human factors in cunputing systems has beoume an intriguing and exciting field of study. In the ten years since the publication of Weinberg's book, ~ ~ ~ [17], the field has grin considerably as is evidenced by Shneiderman's ~ [16], which sucve/s current work and points in directions research might continue. One anthology containing many representative projects is Coumbs and Alty...

Mobile and ubiquitous technologies can potentially change the role of information and communication technology in human lives. Empirical, human-centered approaches are emerging as an alternative to technology-driven approaches in the innovation of these technologies. Three necessary empirical stages, intertwined with analytical ones and with each informing and grounding the succeeding stages, a...

In China, the bee farms are only organized loosely, so human factor has a great impact on bee product quality (BPQ). At the same time, the quality control methods related to information and intelligence technology did not give a useful support on BPQ. As a result, it is not easy control BPQ during production process of bee products. Therefore, how to control BPQ safety effectively always is a h...

This paper aims at describing how to design for human factors in the technology-intensive domain of fighter aircraft. Similar to space industry, the fighter aircraft industry has to manage technology-intensive development where the end user often has implicit or explicit human factors requirements or expectations that has to be managed though design. This paper describes the specifics of the do...

Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering? I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engi...

Motivational factors have long been a topic of study in elearning applications and there is a strong overlap between these factors and the persuasive factors. This study intends to investigate this overlap. Which criteria are common to both, and which criteria are specific to each? The objective is ultimately to design an interactive persuasion criteria grid that is specific to elearning along ...

The UC Davis Ergonomics & Body Mechanics Program provides employees with ergonomic information, training and evaluations.

Satellite remote sensing is par excellence a powerful and efficient tool to ensure acquisition of images over wide areas in short time and with great repetition that can be used in environmental impact studies. This paper proposes an overview on the role of satellite remote sensing in environmental impact assessment. The article points out how modern technology specific to remote sensing can be...

We introduce and analyze a method to reduce the search cost in tries. Traditional trie structures use branching factors at the nodes that are either xed or a function of the number of elements. Instead, we let the distribution of the elements guide the choice of branching factors. This is accomplished in a strikingly simple way: in a binary trie, the i highest complete levels are replaced by a ...