1st Edition
Human Factors Methods and Sports Science A Practical Guide
During the course of any sporting event, critical cognitive and physical tasks are performed within a dynamic, complex, collaborative system comprising multiple humans and artifacts, under pressurized, complex, and rapidly changing conditions. Highly skilled, well-trained individuals walk a fine line between task success and failure, with only slightly inadequate task execution leading to the latter. Promoting cross-disciplinary interaction between the human factors and sports science disciplines, Human Factors Methods and Sports Science: A Practical Guide provides practical guidance on a range of methods for describing, representing, and evaluating human, team, and system performance in sports domains.
Traditionally, the application of human factors and ergonomics methods in sports has focused on the biomechanical, physiological, environmental, and equipment-related aspects of sports performance. However, various human factors methods, applied historically in the complex safety critical domains, are suited to describing and understanding sports performance. This book delineates the similarities in the concepts requiring investigation within sports and the more typical human factors domains. The book’s focus on cognitive and social human factors methods rather than mainly on the application of physiological ergonomics approaches sets it apart from other books in either field. It covers eight categories of human factor methods: data collection, task analysis, cognitive task analysis, human error identification, situation awareness measurement, workload measurement, team performance assessment, and interface evaluation methods.
Constructed so that each chapter can be read non-linearly and independently from one another, the book provides an introduction and overview to each Human Factors topic area, and of each method discussed, along with practical guidance on how to apply them. It also includes detailed descriptions of the different methods, example applications, and theoretical rationale. This allows the concepts to be easily found and digested, and the appropriate method to be easily selected and applied.
Introduction
Introduction
Human Factors Methods
Application in Sport
Structure of the Book
Data Collection Methods
Introduction
Interviews
Questionnaires
Observational Study
Task Analysis Methods
Introduction
Hierarchical Task Analysis
Task Decomposition
Verbal Protocol Analysis
Operation Sequence Diagrams
Cognitive Task Analysis
Introduction
Cognitive Work Analysis
Critical Decision Method
Concept Maps
Applied Cognitive Task Analysis
Human Error Identification and Analysis Methods
Introduction
Defining Human Error
Error Classifications
Theoretical Perspectives on Human Error
Human Error Methods
Accimaps
Fault Tree Analysis
Systematic Human Error Reduction and Prediction Approach
Human Error Template
Task Analysis for Error Identification
Technique for Human Error Assessment
Situation Awareness Assessment Methods
Introduction
Situation Awareness Theory
Situation Awareness and Sport
Measuring Situation Awareness
Situation Awareness Requirements Analysis
Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique
Situation Present Assessment Method
Situation Awareness Rating Technique
Situation Awareness Subjective Workload Dominance
Propositional Networks
Mental Workload Assessment Methods
Introduction
Mental Workload
Workload and Sport
Mental Workload Assessment
Primary and Secondary Task Performance Measures
Physiological Measures
NASA Task Load Index
Subjective Workload Assessment Technique
The Subjective Workload Dominance Method
Instantaneous Self-Assessment Method
Teamwork Assessment Methods
Introduction
Teamwork
Teamwork Assessment Methods
Social Network Analysis
Team Task Analysis
Coordination Demands Analysis
Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork
Interface Evaluation
Introduction
Interface Evaluation Methods
Checklists
Heuristic Analysis
Link Analysis
Layout Analysis
Interface Surveys
Human Factors Methods Integration: Case Study
Introduction
Integrating Human Factors Methods
Methodology
Discussion
Conclusions
References
Index
Biography
Paul Salmon, Neville Anthony Stanton, Adam Gibbon, Daniel Jenkins, Guy H. Walker