Human Factors Research as a method for Grinders.
Hello all;
I'd like to begin our discussion about research methods, and how to capture useful data. To introduce this, I would like to put forth the concept of human factors psychology, and how that might be combined with other clinical methods, and similar designs from the biological and medical sciences to help design some useful protocols for the community.
Human factors psychology is related to ergonomics, and the interface with human beings and the technologies they use. Human factors psychology is used most heavily in engineering and aviation (air force, NASA, etc.) to test how things like heads-up displays can be augmented to promote wakefulness in pilots, etc. As a start, I'd like to just share this set of introductory slides on human factors research methods.
I'd like to begin our discussion about research methods, and how to capture useful data. To introduce this, I would like to put forth the concept of human factors psychology, and how that might be combined with other clinical methods, and similar designs from the biological and medical sciences to help design some useful protocols for the community.
Human factors psychology is related to ergonomics, and the interface with human beings and the technologies they use. Human factors psychology is used most heavily in engineering and aviation (air force, NASA, etc.) to test how things like heads-up displays can be augmented to promote wakefulness in pilots, etc. As a start, I'd like to just share this set of introductory slides on human factors research methods.
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Here is how you set up single-subject test designs. The example here is in educational research. Since these designs measure "hard" data, such as frequency, intensity, latency, duration, etc., they can easily be applied to the exploratory research done by grinders with little tailoring.
Single subject designs.
As you can see here, the range of biostatistical designs does not account much for small n and single subjects designs, and in terms of how r&d is trending right now in this community, it is almost exclusively single subject, and small n, so we will have to borrow methods.
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