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Human Factors in Aviation and Aerospace

  • 3rd Edition - October 26, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Joseph Keebler, Elizabeth H. Lazzara, Katherine Wilson, Elizabeth L. Blickensderfer
  • Language: English

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**Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Occupational and Environmental Medicine**

This third edition of Human Factors in Aviation and Aerospace is a fully updated and expanded version of the highly successful second edition. Written for the widespread aviation community including students, engineers, scientists, pilots, managers, government personnel, etc., this edition continues to offer a comprehensive overview, including pilot performance, human factors in aircraft design, and vehicles and systems. With new editors, this edition adds chapters on aviator attention and perception, accident investigations, automated systems in civil transport airplanes, and aerospace. Multicontributed by leading professionals in the field, this book is the ultimate resource for anyone in the aviation and aerospace industries.

Key features

  • Uses real-world case examples of dangers and solutions
  • Includes a new chapter on spaceflight human factors and decision making
  • Examines future directions for automated systems, in two new, separate chapters

Readership

Graduate students in human factors and aviation psychology courses; academic researchers in human factors area; aviation professionals in military, government, and commercial settings

Table of contents

1. Human Factors in Aviation and Aerospace: An Overview2. Aviation Safety Culture: A Historical Perspective3. High-Reliability Organizations Invest in Resilience4. New Teams on the Flight Deck: Humans and Context-Sensitive Information Automation5. Information Processing in Aviation6. Pilot Attention and Perception and Spatial Cognition7. Managing Workload, Performance, and Situation Awareness in Aviation Systems8. Team Dynamics in the Air: A Review of Team Research Relevant to Aviation9. Human Factors of Flight Training and Simulation10. Human Factors in Aviation Accident Investigations11. Cognitive Architectures for Human Factors in Aviation and Aerospace12. Aircrew Fatigue, Sleep Need and Circadian Rhythmicity13. Aviation Displays: Design for Automation and New Display Formats14. Automated Systems in Civil Transport Airplanes: Human Factors Considerations15. Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems16. General Aviation17. An Introduction to Air Traffic Control and the Application of Human Factors18. Maintenance Human Factors and Flight Safety19. Spaceflight Human Factors: Enter the Cosmos20. Human Factors in General Aviation Weather21. Decision Making in Aviation

Review quotes

*4 stars* "...offers a comprehensive treatment of pilot performance, human factors in aircraft design, and vehicles and systems. Both entirely new and updated chapters cover aviator attention and perception, accident investigation, and automated systems, among other important topics. [P]rovides new chapters, including those devoted to decision-making, aviation and weather, and spaceflight human factors…. primary assessment of this book revolves around its updates. …[A] welcome update, one whose writing is lively, absorbing, and timely."—©Doody’ s Review Service, 2023, John T. Pierce, MBBS(MD) PhD (Navy Environmental Health Center)

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 26, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

JK

Joseph Keebler

Joseph R. Keebler, Ph.D., is a human factors psychologist and data scientist with over 16 years of experience. His work is aimed at experimental and applied research, with an overarching goal of implementing human factors in complex, high-risk systems to increase safety and human performance.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Human Factors and Behavioral Neurobiology, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA

EL

Elizabeth H. Lazzara

Elizabeth H. Lazzara, Ph.D., is an esteemed scientist whose research has contributed greatly to the understanding of human performance, teamwork, team training, simulation-based training, and performance measurement.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Human Factors and Behavioral Neurobiology, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA

KW

Katherine Wilson

Katherine A. Wilson, Ph.D., through her role at the National Transportation Safety Board, specializes in the areas of aviation safety, fatigue, human error, team training, team performance, simulation-based training, patient safety, and multicultural issues.
Affiliations and expertise
Office of Aviation Safety, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Washington DC, USA

EB

Elizabeth L. Blickensderfer

Elizabeth L. Blickensderfer, Ph.D., has over 20 years of experience in human-machine systems research and development. This includes designing and validating numerous training programs for purposes such as teaching general aviation pilots to interpret and understand weather displays and fostering crew resource management skills in helicopter and fixed wing pilots.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Human Factors and Behavioral Neurobiology, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA

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