Educators and school designers place a high priority on creating facilities that enhance learning. That applies not only to how a school is built, but also to the materials and equipment used. Just as acoustical treatments or well-placed windows and skylights can make a classroom more conducive to learning, so can the right furniture. Desks,…

The theme of this article concerns the sketching in of a number of the factors in man's evolutionary interaction with tools, leading toward the predicted eventuality in his development, the replacement of man by machines. (Author)

This article describes the Canyon Lakes Project in Lubbock, Texas in which lakes are being built to store and make use of reclaimed wastewater and runoff that otherwise would be lost. (PD)

The research reported consists of eight tasks, four concerned with manned systems research and four with human resources research. Although each task is basic in the sense that it seeks results of a broadly generalizable nature, each is specifically relevant to one or more well-known and long-standing Air Force problems. (Author)

A computer terminal network to enable "transparent stimulation" of the user of an on-line retrieval system has been designed, implemented, and pilot tested. Its basic purpose is to provide a suitable and effective framework and methodology for experimental identification/validation of those human characteristics which should be…

An understanding of the uses of metacognition provides a powerful tool toward developing quality and efficiency in task learning and performance. Specific thinking skill categories of attention, organization, and elaboration are described with examples of how specific techniques can optimize learning and job performance. (Author/JOW)

Examines proxemics, the study of people's use of distance and space arrangements, and how these can affect the adult learning environment. (SK)

User participation and its relationship to system success have been discussed in the information systems (IS) literature from many theoretical and practical perspectives. In reality, most of this discussion is grounded in empirical research that has yielded mixed results on the importance of user participation and its relationship to system…

Any man-environment system is made up of subsets of the sets man, nature, artifacts, and symbols, and the set of interactions among these elements. (Author)

This document is a supplement to the Annotated Bibliography of Human Factors Laboratory (HFL) Reports (1945-1968) and provides an abstract and complete bibliographic reference for each of the HFL's 68 publications for the years 1968-1972. The majority of these are reports of projects or research studies undertaken in connection with the HFL,…

This discussion of learning carrels for active, individualized learning focuses on three major considerations: (1) student activities--what the student does; (2) information display--what the student sees and hears; (3) carrel structure--what features are incorporated for what purposes. (Author)

The new mechanism, PUSS, enables experience of any complex environment to be accumulated in a predictive model. PURR-PUSS is a teachable robot system based on the new mechanism. Cumulative learning is demonstrated by a detailed example. (Author)

Views the discipline of psychology historically with specific concern for its relationship to man's quest for freedom. (Author/RK)

Discusses the importance of designing for comfortable, effective interfaces between students and computers in classrooms. Explores the use of research and classroom mock-ups to ensure appropriate design. (EV)