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Contents: Acknowledgements; Preface; Part One: Job Design and Analysis: Modelling and simulation of human behaviour in process control: needs, perspectives and applications; Development of a framework for analysis of human error and disturbance occurrence in manufacturing systems; A systems analysis of team working in human supervisory control; Planning complex projects in organizations involves situated cognition; Studying the work of schedulers: how do they work, how can we know?; Estimating production potentials: expert bias in applied decision making; Testing Belbin's team role theory of effective group functioning: do mixed teams perform better than shaper teams?; Assessing the effects of location, media and task type on team performance; On the structure of working behaviour; Mental fatigue and task performance.

Part Two: Human-Computer Interaction: Cognitive ergonomics in the design and evaluation of web and other computing systems; Designing the paramedic protocol and patient reporting computer (P³CO); Haptic augmentation of virtual reality; The sensory conflict adaptation measure (SCAM): a tool for VE effects prediction and performance measurement; Readability of computer displays as a function of colour, saturation and background texture; A fast and easy psycho-physical procedure to adjust luminance and achromatic contrast in conventional video display terminals (VDT); Perspectives on a study of user understanding and perception of multimedia video; Individual and group commitment to computer mediated decisions; Psychological type and cognitive style as antecedents of computer attitudes; Design of user interfaces for non-European markets: a study of global demands; Finding out what users really think: using cognitive modelling to improve icon design; The Athena HCI assessment suite; Exploring the space of cognitive architectures: evaluating applications in HCI; BUILD-IT: a brick-based tool for direct interaction; Support of fault diagnosis during supervisory control by means of interface design.

Part Three: Applied Psychology: The psychodynamics of human-machine interaction; The element of trust: identifying key components of trust for HSC domains; The effect of auditory warning signals on visual target identification; Action-driven quantification of task-solving behaviour; The effects of combined stressors on the production of speech; The role of goals in shaping user interactions with speech systems; It's good to talk: stress effects on articulation onset time; Strategy choice when being mentally fatigued; Fitting the mental model: a new technique for computerized event recording; Evaluation of mental workload by using probe-tasks; Manipulation of attention within the somatosensory systems; The multimodal user model: cognitive processes in the integration of visual text and speech; Self-assessment and accuracy in verbal recognition; Using network theory to delineate multiple resource pools; Human cognition and information processing: potential problems for a field dependent sequential information processor.

Part Four: Product Design and Analysis: The theory of direct perception and the concept of affordances in specifying decision decision support systems; The human factors integration key issues tool; A survey of civil control room design; A framework for the study of the relationship between user and artefact; Usability evaluation of personal security codes based on portraits of human faces; Supporting the anticipation-feedback loop in user interface design; Man-machine simulator and its application to an operator support system; Utility analysis in cognitive ergonomics; System cognitive function specification: the next steps; A user-centred deployment methodology; Localizable auditory warnings: integral "where" and "what" components; Alerting, informing and localizable auditory warnings; A new approach to the design of multimodal warning signals; Common ground in interactive system design; An ecologically-valid study of categorization by designers; Sub-goal templates: a method for establishing information requirements in process plant.

Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, Volume 3: Transportation systems, medical ergonomics and training is also available. Don Harris, Senior Research Fellow, Human Factors Engineering, Cranfield College of Aeronautics, UK.