Abstract
Many of the chapters of this book identify tragic and costly problems with modern technology that could have been avoided with proper human factors technology application. However, if we survey consumers, designers, managers, and bureaucrats, nearly all will agree that they would like safe and well-performing systems. None wants technology that will maim, poison, or fall out of the sky on the user. None wants systems that cannot be operated, or create demands for such high job skills that the only alternative is unconscionably expensive training programs. As Lieutenant General Allen K. Ono, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel for the U.S. Army, has so succinctly stated, “No one is purposely trying to design equipment that the soldiers can’t use.”
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Booher, H.R., Rouse, W.B. (1990). Manprint as the Competitive Edge. In: Booher, H.R. (eds) Manprint. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0437-8_20
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