To publish or not to publish: A systems analysis of longitudinal trends in publishing strategies of a human factors research organisation

The goal of this study is to extend Rasmussen’s framework for risk management to research organisations having to deal with reduced income from government funding and increased market orientation. One human factors research organisation was studied in detail. Using archival records, changes were studied over the period 1989–2010. The results...

Designing a licence plate for memorability

Good memorability of licence plates is important in those cases where licence plates are viewed for a brief period of time and the information is essential for police investigations. The purpose of the current study was to design a new Dutch licence plate that could be remembered well. A memory experiment was conducted, in which 16 different...

Control performance with three translational degrees of freedom

For multiple DOF systems, it is important to detemine how accurately operators can control each DOF, and what the influence of the perceptual, information processing and psychomotor components on performance is. Sixteen right-handed male students participated in 2 experiments: one involving positioning and one involving tracking with 3...

Effects of skill integration and perceptual competition on age-related differences in dual-task performance

Age-related differences in dual-task performance may be affected by factors such as skill integration and perceptual competition. Therefore these factors were examined in a dual-task experiment with young and older adults involving two one-dimensional compensatory tracking tasks. Single-task difficulty was individually adjusted for each subject....

An empirical study of subjective road categorization

Driver behaviour will partially be a function of the cognitive schemata by which drivers represent features, functions and operations of traffic system components. This paper uses the Repertory Grid Technique to address the questions: (1) How do drivers internally represent different categories of road? (2) How are those representations mapped...

Vehicle control during curve driving

Based on a preview-predictor model, the time-to-line crossing (TLC) description was developed to quantify the potential role of error-neglecting strategies in driving. In a previous study the usefulness of the TLC concept was illustrated for straight lane keeping. In the present analysis TLC was applied to describe steering through a curve. When...