Management Information Systems: A Need for Human Factors,

Abstract

The microcomputer revolution in management information systems now allows almost instant access to millions of bits of information to predict, trend, or even recall past activities. Additionally, the acess to this information is now being accomplished by placing the computer on desktops everywhere. Often these computers are user friendly and little or no computerese is needed to operate them. These desktop computers have been human engineered from the software point of view but often the actual human engineering development and evaluation is lacking. This paper takes a general look at the lack of human engineering development and evaluation and suggests items that should be addressed in these two areas. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADP003313

Entities

People

  • J. A. Boyless

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Colorado
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Management Information Systems
  • Personal Computers
  • Psychology
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • User Friendly

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design