Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Third Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Equips the reader with an understanding and application of the theory and practice of discovering patterns hidden in large data sets and focuses on new, important topics in the field: data warehouses and data cube technology, mining stream, mining social networks, and mining spatial, multimedia and other complex data
Authors: Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, Jian Pei
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2011
Added to List: November 16, 2012
Cost-Justifying Usability, Second Edition: An Update for the Internet Age, Second Edition
Advice from experts on how to justify time and money spent on improvements of the user interface
Edited by Randolph G Bias and Deborah J Mayhew
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2005
Added to List: February 17, 2012
Human Factors in Engineering and Design (Sixth Edition)
This is the standard introductory textbook
Authors: Mark S. Sanders & Ernest J. McCormick
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1987
Human Engineering Guide to Equipment Design (Revised Edition)
While dated regarding display elements, it still has good information on workplace design.
Edited by Harold P. Van Cott, Ph.D. & Robert G. Kinkade, Ph.D.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1972
Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics (Second Edition)
This is the standard introductory textbook
Edited by Gavriel Salvendy
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 1997
The Industrial Operator’s Handbook - Petroleum & Chemical Industries Edition
Based upon practices in the nuclear industry, the Handbook gives some good models for shift relief.
Author: H.C. Howlett II
Publisher: Gulf Publishing Company, 1996
Engineering Psychology and Human Performance
A well written text by one of the pre-eminent researchers in the field
Author: Christopher Wickens
Publisher: Harper Collins, 1992
GENERALREADING
Human Factors in Process Plant Operation
Call it the Human element in how an automated process operation is run….the other half of the controls operation equation. This essential new book will explain how human factors engineering concepts do and must dovetail with controls systems design and operation.
Author: David A. Strobhar
Publisher: Momentum Press, 2014
Added to List: July 16, 2014
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Written by a practicing physician, the author provides a compelling case for the use of checklists. Well written and easy to read, it perhaps overstates how much checklists can do. However, it certainly presents convincing evidence that they can be beneficial.
Author: Gawande Atul
Publisher: McMillan Publishing, 2010
Added to List: March 25, 2014
Designing Interfaces
This book provides solutions to common design problems by capturing UI best practices and reusable ideas as design patterns.
Author: Jenifer Tidwell
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Added to List: December 12, 2012
Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
This is a must read for anyone involved in plant safety. Dekker challenges many current paradigms on both why systems fail and what is needed to make them succeed. The work is well written and engaging, with cogent arguments throughout.
Author: Sidney Dekker
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, VT, 2011
Added to List: April 11, 2012
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
The leading practitioner in how people make decisions in real-world settings
Author: Gary Klein
Publisher: MIT Press, 1999
Design of Everyday Things
An easy to read introduction to human factors principles as seen from everyday items, such as “hold” buttons and refrigerator controls
Author: Don Norman
Publisher: Basic Books, 1988
Things That Make us Smart
In explaining the unique capabilities of people, Don Norman provides great insight into the creation of display systems.
Author: Don Norman
Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1994
Readings in Training and Simulation: A 30-Year Perspective
A collection of articles that provided insight into some of the issues and questions regarding training and simulation.
Edited by Robert W. Swezey & Dee H. Andrews
Publisher: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2001
Tasks, Errors, and Mental Models
Tapping into the groundbreaking work of Jens Rasmussen on the hierarchy of behavior related to process control
Edited by L.P. Goodstein, H.B. Andersen, &S.E. Olsen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 1988
The Connoisseur’s Guide to the Mind
An eclectic journey into decision making using food and wine choices as the example. A well written and entertaining read
Author: Roger C. Schank
Publisher: Summit Books, 1991
New Trends in Cooperative Activities: Understanding System Dynamics in Complex Environments
A collection of articles on team performance issues. While somewhat mixed in usability, a few of the articles are worth the entire book.
Edited by Michael McNeese, Eduardo Salas, & Mica Endsley
Publisher: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2001
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
While almost more oriented toward graphic arts, this is an interesting collection of different means to present information. It emphasizes options in presentation of data.
Author: Edward Tufte
Publisher: Graphics Press, 2001
Induction
A multi-disciplinary approach to how people learn and make inferences. Numerous gems of information throughout.
Authors: J.H. Holland, K.J. Holyoak, R.E. Nisbett, &P.R. Thagard
Publisher: MIT Press, 1986
