Focus on Behavior: Of Men and Machines

Year Published: 1962

Creator: American Psychological Association

Complete Record: the study of human engineering is explained by prominent psychologists and experiments that will improve human and machine interaction - aircraft safety procedures one highlighted in the film plane crash interior control tower Pan Am plane right to left, aerial, landing scientist explains engineering, psychology, bow tie, glasses stimulus response experiment, headphones, microphone, the subject presses buttons on cue, weird control panel with stopwatch WW II plane, in air, lords, interior shots from behind pilots head plane crashes, clean up, shots of instrument panels experiment with United States Army pilot A wheel with knobs is spun around, the pilot, wearing goggles that obscure iris vision, has to “feel” the covert slopes scientist is interviewed, explains experiment to a pilot land test is simulated by computer pilot struggles with control stick, good angle bar of light on display panel, hand points to it with a pencil good air traffic control training shots radar displays aplenty face reflects in panel lots of buzz haircuts and neckties technician works, pulls on a lever connected to a computer so long it fills the frame behind hi, traffic controller writes on screen with China marker coding of aircraft to give off unique “blips” on screen will be a safety precaution more keywords: aircraft technology military human guinea pig