human factors aviation psychology literature

[jumbobelle]

enough of the roster, I'm jumping ship from flying to aviation psychology/human factors and am doing a psychology degree. Anyone know good sources of literature, articles, journals etc. for these or safety management?

[Journey Man]

If you're doing a degree, your University library should be your first point of call. Publishers frequently make online or downloadable snook formats available via a university's library website.

Failing that, the second hand market at your department's online forum may help. Especially if you prefer a physical book.

[Genghis the Engineer]

If this is your first degree, or first in some years, you'll find that the degree course starts with a library course and usually some exercises in how to conduct literature reviews. This has become much more important in recent years in universities, and rightly so.

You'll find for anything after 2nd year undergraduate work, and most postgraduate work, you're using very little in the way of books. Most of your material will come from the massive body of literature published in peer review academic journals.

A good starting point for that, if you don't yet have university library access is to use google scholar (just go to google, search on the word "scholar" and you'll find it).

Now having said that, one of the most significant researchers and writers on this topic is Professor James Reason, formerly of the University of Manchester. His book "The Human Contribution", will give you a really good high quality introduction.

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[Apollo30]

Important journals:
· Human Factors
· Ergonomics
· Applied Ergonomics
· Aviation Psychology
· Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors
· Cognition, Technology & Work
· Transportation Research Part B, D, F
· Old Title: Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, new title: Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance

Some interesting books – there are much more …
Tsang, P. S., & Vidulich, M. A. (Eds.). (2003). Principles and practice of aviation psychology. Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Wiener, E. L., & Nagel, D. C. (Eds.). (1988). Human factors in aviation. San Diego: Academic Press.
Wiegmann, D. A., & Shappell, S. A. (2003). A human error approach to aviation accident analysis: The human factors analysis and classification system. Aldershot: Ashgate.

[Genghis the Engineer]

I think that anybody trying to start wading through representative issues of those journals, or even going cold into Weigmann & Shappell, might well go mad before they start the course!

The other two books are probably a safe bet however.

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[Piltdown Man]

And then you have the practical, human side. My particular preferences are for the likes of Sidney Dekker and Erik Hollnagel rather than James Reason. These guys give some reasonable links between theory and the real world we live in, rather than the abstract world of the academic.

PM

[Genghis the Engineer]

But our man wants academic - he's doing a degree.

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[Piltdown Man]

These guys are certainly academics and they definitely publish academic papers.

Pm

[Genghis the Engineer]

Point accepted.

Anyhow, what our man needs I think is something moderately academic, introducing human factors and phsychology in aviation contexts. There are certainly good examples there - the main thing to avoid is probably the ultra-highbrow stuff (such as mainstream academic journals) in the short term until he's got the broad principles of current thinking.

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[Apollo30]

Yes, first browse some books and then the journals.
However, for high-quality up-to-date stuff the journals are the best way.
For discussions rather than scientific stuff, practitioners journals like the aerosafety world magazine are also a good read.

[Piece of Cake]

When I did my HF related MSc I received the following list ...


A selection of journals within Human Factors, Ergonomics and Psychology (some with a bias towards aviation)

Please note this list by no means exhaustive – there may be other publications relevant to your area of study. The list is in alphabetical order - some journals have a higher standing than others.

Aerospace Science and Technology
Accident Analysis and Prevention
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology
Applied Ergonomics
Applied Psychology: an international review
Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors
Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine
British Journal of Psychology
Cognition, Technology and Work
Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors
Design Studies
Ergonomics
Human Computer Interaction
Human Factors
Human Factors and Aerospace Safety
Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Service Industries
Industrial and Systems Engineering
International Journal of Applied Aviation Studies
International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics
Journal of Aeronautics, Astronautics and Aviation
Journal of Air Transport Management
Journal of Applied Psychology
Journal of Industrial Ergonomics
Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Journal of Safety Research
Occupational Ergonomics
Personality and Individual Differences
Safety Science
The Aeronautical Journal
The International Journal of Aviation Psychology
Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour


Good luck!

[Genghis the Engineer]

Most of those will cost quite a lot to access - *but* should be accessible once registered on a course, through the university library.

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[safetypee]

Jumbo, I applaud your interest in HF and wish you well.

HUMAN ERROR (http://qhc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/12/5/383)

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.863/rasmussen-safetyscience.pdf

http://ssmon.chb.kth.se/volumes/vol3/ps1.pdf

Rassumssen’s work is often seen as the basis for that of Reason, Hollnagel, Dekker, Amalberti.
Also see:-

Humanistic Systems | Views on human factors, systems and safety from the perspectives of humanistic thinking, systems thinking and design thinking. (http://humanisticsystems.com/)

http://www.safetydifferently.com/

Don Norman's jnd.org website / human-centered design (http://www.jnd.org/)

Flight Cognition Laboratory (http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/ihs/flightcognition/)

[4Greens]

Stick with James Reason, its all there.

[jumbobelle]

Thanks so much guys, I have the general Uni library of course :8 but good to see specifics of where other people are at

[safetypee]

j b see https://hfeinpractice.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/adapting-to-a-messy-world-donald-broadbent-lecture-2016/ for view of the future according to the academic practitioners.

Don't forget your roots; you should have the invaluable advantage of experiencing 'work as done' vs '(HF) work as imagined', which qualifies you as a potential translator for the academics.

[FlyANA]

As someone with a lot of large airline SMS experience I strongly recommend you do some data science work as well! A trap for many safety specialists is that they can list endless points of human factors but can't work out basic safety trends from their data, use basic statistics (Bayes, Poisson, Gaussian etc.) or they infer results incorrectly based upon erroneous safety data.

Here's a decent free course, just the first module will help you understand how to use safety data correctly (you have to select each course individually to avoid the fee):

https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-scientists-tools/home/info?source=cdpv2

After all there's no point being able to understand human factors if you can't apply it objectively using data as opposed to entirely subjective theory. All the airline SMS's are going data driven currently or will probably be co-erced into it over the next few years so if you want a job at the end this will definitely help.

A bit off what you were asking about though!