Engineering Psychology and Ergonomics

Pre-requisites: Prerequisite for attending the course is passing the following exams: Cognitive Psychology, Methodology of Psychological Research, Statistics in Psychology (1, 2), and Introduction to Work Psychology.

Course objectives: Mastering the psychological principles and regularities of human work in contemporary technical systems and ways of applying the psychological knowledge and principles to designing and maintaining work processes, technical equipment and work environment in order to achieve optimal...

Course description: The objectives and aims of Engineering psychology and ergonomics, the key theoretical and practical issues, job design and organization of work; characteristics of human work in contemporary systems including information technology, human-machine system and distribution of functions in this system; communication in human – machine system, information encoding, management and control; efficiency of human – machine system; dynamics of human work ability in the system, monotony, vigilance, circadian rhythms and work; stress and stress factors in the work of operators in contemporary systems, occupational health hazards, difficult working conditions and hazards at workplace, work space, workplace, spatial relations at work, work space and efficiency in the contemporary working context.

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Engineering Psychology and Ergonomics

Pre-requisites: Prerequisite for attending the course is passing the following exams: Cognitive Psychology, Methodology of Psychological Research, Statistics in Psychology (1, 2), and Introduction to Work Psychology.

Course objectives: Mastering the psychological principles and regularities of human work in contemporary technical systems and ways of applying the psychological knowledge and principles to designing and maintaining work processes, technical equipment and work environment in order to achieve optimal...

Course description: The objectives and aims of Engineering psychology and ergonomics, the key theoretical and practical issues, job design and organization of work; characteristics of human work in contemporary systems including information technology, human-machine system and distribution of functions in this system; communication in human – machine system, information encoding, management and control; efficiency of human – machine system; dynamics of human work ability in the system, monotony, vigilance, circadian rhythms and work; stress and stress factors in the work of operators in contemporary systems, occupational health hazards, difficult working conditions and hazards at workplace, work space, workplace, spatial relations at work, work space and efficiency in the contemporary working context.

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Literature/Reading:

• Čizmić, S. (2006). Ljudski faktor - Osnove inženjerske psihologije. Beograd: Institut za psihologiju.
• Čizmić, S., Petrović, I. (2015). Tehnologija, mesto i ljudi: Budućnost psihologije rada. U M. Đurišić Bojanović (Ur.), Novi pogledi i perspektive u psihologiji rada i organizacije (str. 77- 97). Beograd, CPP.
• Kovačević, I. (2016). Psihološki činioci uspešne poslovne primene računara. Beograd: Zadužbina Andrejević.
• Stanković, V., & Čizmić, S. (2014) Ergonomski faktori rizika i fizička nelagodnost korisnika laptop računara. Psihološka istraživanja 17(1), 19-33.