1. Engineering Psychology
cognitive psychology – creativity design – transportation psychology – Operator Control operator control – HMI – visualisation of information – work&organisation psychology – theories of personality
Jakub Jura

2. Course website

3. What is Psychology?
Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes.
Disciplines
General Psychology
Social Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Psychology of Personality
Psychometrics
Psychosemantics
Clinical Psychology Psychotherapy

4. What is Engineering psychology?
Psychological approach to the solution of technical problems.
Engineering Psychology is mutidisciplinary science.
Engineering Psychology is concerned with adapting the equipment and environment to people, based upon their psychological capacities and limitations (Blum, 1952) 
Roots:
Army psychology
Ergonomics 
Transportation psychology
Personnel psychology
Experimental psychology

5. Problems Creative design aviation munitions factories Human resources
(inventions, innovations) 
aviation
(altimeter  - misreading error )
munitions factories
(First World War) 
Human resources
Testing - Selecting
Training
Adaptation of technical equipments to human operator
nuclear industry
(Černobyl, Three Mile Island ) 
transportation
(speed merchant) 
Artificial intelligence
(MAS, UNS) 

6. LAB TASKS Afterimage (Emmer law) Skin sensitivity Weber law
Fechner law
Reaction time
Indicator evaluation
EDA (Electro-Dermal Activities)
Car driver analysis

7. Schedule
Terms: Wednesday  Lectures: from 14:15 to 15:45  Lab A:from 13:15 to 14:45,
Lab B: from 15:00 to 16:30.  Place: lab 109, Dejvice
Introduction, Cognitive psychology I (Lecture)  Cognitive psychology II, Psychology of emotions and motivation (Lecture).  LAB 1 - General psychology  LAB 1 - General psychology  LAB 1 - General psychology  LAB 1 - General psychology  Operator Control (Lecture)  LAB 2 - Engineering psychology  LAB 2 - Engineering psychology  LAB 2 - Engineering psychology  LAB 2 - Engineering psychology  9.5.(Fr.) - Final test  14.5.(Th.) - Creative design (Lecture) 

8. Model of humane operator control
Sensoric
processes
Internal proceses
Motoric
processes
Sensation
Perception
Thinking,
decision making,
problem solving.
Behaviour,
Motoric func.
Handlers
Pilot lamps
Controled system
Aktors
Functionla
principles of
controled sys.
Sensors 8

9. Cognitive model of the operator

10. BIOCYS

11. Cognitive model for HMI design

12. Identification of operator’s tiredness

13. Support of creative conceptual design