ABOUT THE COURSE: Psychology helps us in understanding our own behavior and the behaviors of others. The field of engineering psychology helps us in solving engineering within the limits of human cognition. The present course will discuss some basic engineering design problems and provide solutions to these using the basic concepts of human cognitionINTENDED AUDIENCE: Students, TeachersINDUSTRY SUPPORT: HCI industries
Overview
Syllabus
Week 1 : Module Name : Introduction to Engineering Psychology
Lecture 1 : Introduction - 1
Lecture 2 :Introduction - 2
Week 2 :Module Name : Signal detection and absolute judgment
Lecture 3 : Signal detection
Lecture 4 : ROC curve
Lecture 5 : Application of SDT
Week 3 : Module Name : Attention in Perception and Display Space
Lecture 6 : Visual attention
Lecture 7 : Divided attention
Lecture 8 : Attention in auditory modality
Week 4 : Module Name : Spatial Displays
Lecture 9 : Graph perception
Lecture 10 : dials and meters
Lecture 11 : depth and distance
Week 5 : Module Name : Spatial cognition
Lecture 12 : Frame of reference
Lecture 13 : Map design
Lecture 14 : Environmental design
Week 6 : Module Name : Language and communication
Lecture 15 : Perception of print
Lecture 16 : recognition of objects
Week 7 : Module Name : Memory & training
Lecture 17 : multimedia instructions
Lecture 18 : Working memory
Week 8 : Module Name : Memory & training
Lecture 19 : inference and confusion
Lecture 20 : training
Lecture 1 : Introduction - 1
Lecture 2 :Introduction - 2
Week 2 :Module Name : Signal detection and absolute judgment
Lecture 3 : Signal detection
Lecture 4 : ROC curve
Lecture 5 : Application of SDT
Week 3 : Module Name : Attention in Perception and Display Space
Lecture 6 : Visual attention
Lecture 7 : Divided attention
Lecture 8 : Attention in auditory modality
Week 4 : Module Name : Spatial Displays
Lecture 9 : Graph perception
Lecture 10 : dials and meters
Lecture 11 : depth and distance
Week 5 : Module Name : Spatial cognition
Lecture 12 : Frame of reference
Lecture 13 : Map design
Lecture 14 : Environmental design
Week 6 : Module Name : Language and communication
Lecture 15 : Perception of print
Lecture 16 : recognition of objects
Week 7 : Module Name : Memory & training
Lecture 17 : multimedia instructions
Lecture 18 : Working memory
Week 8 : Module Name : Memory & training
Lecture 19 : inference and confusion
Lecture 20 : training
Taught by
Prof. Naveen Kashyap
