Il corso introduce l'ingegneria del fattore umano (HFE), un campo interdisciplinare che trova applicazione ogni qual volta l’uomo interagisce con una macchina in un contesto di sistema. Gli studenti apprenderanno i principi base dell'HFE e come questi si inseriscono nella progettazione e nell'analisi ingegneristica. Gli studenti applicheranno i principi HFE a problemi di progettazione di diversi contesti con esempi tratti dai settori manifatturiero, aerospaziale, dei trasporti terrestri, della medicina e dell'interazione uomo-macchina. Non sono richiesti particolari pre-requisiti. Gli argomenti principali includono il sistema sensoriale visivo, l'illuminazione, l'udito e il rumore, l'elaborazione delle informazioni umane, il funzionamento fisiologico e biomeccanico e le implicazioni del fattore umano per la progettazione

This course introduces Human Factor Engineering (HFE), an interdisciplinary field, with applications wherever humans interact with equipment in a system context. Students will learn an overview of HFE principles and understand how they fit into engineering design and analysis and help improving human decision-making and performance in multi-task, safety-critical environments. The primary focus will be on the derivation of human engineering design criteria from sensory, motor, and cognitive sources to include principles of displays, controls and ergonomics, the nature of human error, basic experimental design, and human-machine interaction in different environments. Course modules will include the various aspects of human information processing, signal detection, and perception to identify and analyse sources of human error and help formulate principled hypotheses for human-system design improvement. Attention, distraction, vigilance, memory selection and decision making principles will also be covered to understand the impact of mental workload on situation awareness, and human performance. The course will also look into human sensory, motor, and cognitive attributes that influence human performance, in particular the visual sensory system and illumination (sight/depth perception/optic flow), hearing and noise, and the sense of proprioception. At last, physiological and biomechanical functioning of the human body will be addressed to optimize physical capabilities and limitations in human-machine system performance. Typical design and operational problems in work domains, as well as their HFE solutions, will be highlighted during the course and students will apply HFE principles to design-related problems with examples drawn from manufacturing, aerospace, ground transportation, medicine, and computer/machine interaction.

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P.D.2-2 - Marzo

First Class: Monday, March 11 at 9.00 a.m. Tuesday, March 11 at 9.00 a.m. Wednesday, March 11 at 9.00 a.m. Thursday, March 11 at 9.00 a.m. Course Duration: 12h Meeting Room: Dimeas, meeting room 3rd floor