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Muhammad Safuan Abdul Latip; Siti Nur Nadhirah Abdul Latip; Masliana Tamrin; Faizatul Akmal Rahim – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The study aims to explore factors that influence students' academic performance in the context of physical ergonomics and assess the mediating effect of motivation between lighting, noise, temperature, chair design and students' performance from the student's perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The research was categorised as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Human Factors Engineering, Lighting
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Marois, Alexandre; Hodgetts, Helen M.; Chamberland, Cindy; Williot, Alexandre; Tremblay, Sébastien – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
Closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance units largely rely on the support of surveillance operators. Although this job is cognitively challenging, few studies have investigated the main human factors improving the ability to detect critical incidents in this context. This study aimed to explore the contribution of individual characteristics…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Television, Age Differences, Short Term Memory
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Manchaiah, Vinaya; Amlani, Amyn M.; Bricker, Christina M.; Whitfield, Clayton T.; Ratinaud, Pierre – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The current study was aimed at understanding the benefits and shortcomings of direct-to-consumer hearing devices (DCHDs) by analyzing the large text corpus of secondary data generated from Amazon customer reviews. Method: Secondary data were generated manually by gathering user feedback for 62 different DCHDs (cost range: $9.95-$635) on…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Human Factors Engineering, Acoustics, Hearing Impairments
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Frérot, Cécile; Landry, Aurélie; Karagouch, Lionel – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2020
We report on an experiment carried out among master's students in specialised translation involved in an authentic translation project at the University of Grenoble Alpes. With a view to designing an authentic translation environment for future translators, a collaborative and ergonomic dimension was integrated into translator training. Ergonomics…
Descriptors: Translation, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Student Projects
Savage, Raymond S., Jr – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The problem for this research study developed from the current lighting environment in our homes, workplaces, and classrooms that are producing unwanted side effects in the form of too much blue light. As a result, educators, students, and their parents are all impacted by what some healthcare providers are calling "the looming public health…
Descriptors: Lighting, Preferences, Case Studies, Family Environment
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Luik, Piret – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Most boys and girls interact differently with educational software and have different preferences for the design of educational software. The question is whether the usage of educational software has the same consequences for both genders. This paper investigates the characteristics of drill-and-practice programmes or drills that are efficient for…
Descriptors: Females, Computer Software, Gender Differences, Drills (Practice)
Peterson, Kristy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The capability of organizations to operate on the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework is reliant on ITIL process measurements. Appropriate ITIL process measurements help ensure desired outcomes, enable corrective actions to take place prior to process failure, and direct process activities towards continuous improvement.…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Correlation, Measurement Objectives, Measurement Techniques
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Rushton, J. Philippe – Intelligence, 1994
Cranial capacities are calculated from external head measurements reported for 40 samples (tens of thousands of subjects) from a 1990 review of ergonomically important body measurements compiled by the International Labour Office. The correlation between brain size and intelligence for groups and individuals is discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Correlation, Genetics, Human Factors Engineering
Cunningham, J. W. – 1972
Ergometrics, the application of psychometric principles and procedures to the study of human work, draws from theories and principles of human behavior as well as from established procedures in psychological measurement and job analysis. The project described employs ergometrics to describe, compare, and group occupations for educational purposes.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Behavior, Cluster Analysis, Correlation
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Burns, Catherine M.; Vicente, Kim J. – Information Processing & Management, 1996
Describes an empirical evaluation that investigated the criteria by which designers of human-machine systems evaluate design information. Professional designers of nuclear power plant control rooms rated hypothetical information search questions in terms of relevance, importance, cost, and effort based on Rouse's model of information search…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Correlation, Costs, Designers