This book identifies areas that represent new needs and opportunities for human factors research in the coming decades. It is forward-looking, problem oriented, and selectively focused on national or global problems, including productivity in organizations, education and training, employment and disabilities, health care, and environmental change; technology issues, including communications technology and telenetworking, information access and usability, emerging technologies, automation, and flexible manufacturing, and advanced transportation systems; and human performance, including cognitive performance under stress and aiding intellectual work.

Table of Contents


Front Matter
Executive Summary
Part I: Summary Report
Part II: Background Papers
1 Productivity in Organizations
2 Training and Education
3 Employment and Disabilities
4 Health Care
5 Environmental Change
6 Communication Technology and Telenetworking
7 Information Access and Usability
8 Emerging Technologies in Work Design
9 Transportation
10 Cognitive Performance Under Stress
11 Aiding Intellectual Work