SYMPOSIUM ON RELIABILITY OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE IN WORK CONDUCTED AS PART OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (1966),
Abstract
Dr. Altman's paper is concerned with the classification and combination of human error data in psychologically meaningful ways. He examines alternative ways of classifying human error to facilitate integration of error data for reliability estimates that will be useful to the psychologist. Dr. Swain discusses some practical limitations in using the simple multiplicative model with a molecular definition of behavioral elements to estimate task reliability in man-machine systems. He describes advantages of estimating conditional probabilities of larger (molar) units of behavior when employing the probability tree technique in reliability analysis. Dr. Meister's paper addresses the importance of production worker error to system reliability, together with characteristics that differentiate production error from operating error. Factors that predispose to worker error are analyzed in the context of the production process as a man-machine system. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0659140
Entities
People
- William B. Askren
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory