1. Engineering Psychology
cognitive psychology – creativity design – transportation psychology – Operator Control operator control – HMI – visualisation of information – work&organisation psychology – theories of personality
Jakub Jura

2. Course website

3. What is Psychology?
Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes.
Disciplines
General Psychology
Social Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Psychology of Personality
Psychometrics
Psychosemantics
Clinical Psychology Psychotherapy

4. What is Engineering psychology?
Psychological approach to the solution of technical problems.
Engineering Psychology is mutidisciplinary science.
Engineering Psychology is concerned with adapting the equipment and environment to people, based upon their psychological capacities and limitations (Blum, 1952) 
Roots:
Army psychology
Ergonomics 
Transportation psychology
Personnel psychology
Experimental psychology

5. Problems Creative design (inventions, innovations) aviation
(altimeter  - misreading error )
munitions factories
(First World War) 
Human resources
Testing - Selecting
Training
Adaptation of technical equipments to human operator
nuclear industry
(Černobyl, Three Mile Island ) 
transportation
(speed merchant) 
Artificial intelligence
(MAS, UNS) 
assimilation
accommodation

6. LAB TASKS Afterimage (Emmer law) Indicator evaluation Reaction time
Fechner law
Weber law
EDA (Electro-Dermal Activities)
Car driver analysis
Skin sensitivity

7. 1 Emmert’s law Emil Emmert (1844 - 1911)
Emmert law: The afterimage size changes proportionally with its distance from the observer. a a’ l l’

8. 2 Indicator evaluation

9. 3 Reaction time Human reaction to visual signal … cca 250 ms
Human reaction to auditive signal … cca 150 ms

10. 4 Fechner law Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801–1887)
Dependence of sense impression on the intensity of stimulus is logarithm.
P = k * ln (S)
P … percept
k … constant
S … stimulus

11. 5 Weber law
Ernest Heinrich Weber  (1795–1878)
Experiment with weight difference
Just noticeable difference (jnd) between two weights was approximately proportional to the mass of the weights
I = kw* I
I … Base intensity (Total weight)
I … Discrimination threshold (Weight difference)
kw Constatnt (Weber Fraction)
We can‘t perceive the intensity of stimulus directly, but in relation to the reference value.

12. 6 EDA (Electro-Dermal Activities)

13. 7 Car driver analysis
Quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate the inuence of phone use on driving
abilities. Discover the quantitative dierence in driving performance
with/without distraction. Qualitatively nd out what the operator (driver)
does during the mobile phone ring and when he/she telephones

14. 8 Haptic sensibility Tactile compasses The brain – projection zone.
Skin surface and brain surface.

15. Model of humane operator control
Sensoric
processes
Internal proceses
Motoric
processes
Sensation
Perception
Thinking,
decision making,
problem solving.
Behaviour,
Motoric func.
Handlers
Pilot lamps
Controled system
Aktors
Functionla
principles of
controled sys.
Sensors 15

16. Cognitive model of the operator

17. BIOCYS
Biocybernetic Analysis System (BIOCYS) for HMI (Han Machine Interface) - related cognitive factor analysis
Measuring of biological variables as a EEG, EMG, EDA ...
Analysis of the data (expert system)
Incorporating new information in whole control system.

18. Eye tracking Visualisation of industrial processes
Feed-back improvement
Design orientaton to
Intuitiveness (first use)
Optimal use (after learning)
Speed
Reliability

19. Cognitive model for HMI design

20. Creative conceptaul design

22. Operator selection (testing)
Computer adaptive testing
Transportation psychology