Human Factors in Medical Systems

Catalog description

Comprehensive introduction to human factors issues related to healthcare systems, medical training, and medical device design. Topics range from psychological and physiological aspects of human behavior like perceptual and cognitive functions, motor behavior, learning, motivation, physiology, and ergonomics to applied issues in the context of medicine and healthcare like human-computer interactions in medical information systems, the ergonomic design of medical devices, evaluation of medical device usability, team training in healthcare and the organization of medical environment.