Human Factors Terminology

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Across
  1. 2. Human eye is most sensitive to this color
  2. 4. Selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment and ignoring other things
  3. 5. Step-by-step instructions to accomplish a task
  4. 8. Interpretation of sensory inputs
  5. 11. From the Greek words for “work” and “laws or study of”
  6. 12. Survey tool to gather information from respondents
  7. 14. Consistency and repeatability
  8. 15. Ratio of output to inputs in production
  9. 17. Deterioration in decision making due to concurrence seeking in a group
  10. 18. Technique to aid information retention and retrieval
  11. 20. Conducting a controlled test of a hypothesis using the scientific method
  12. 24. Acceptable level of risk
  13. 25. Perceptual or attentional narrowing
  14. 26. U.S. standards and conformity assessment system
  15. 28. Ease of use and learnability of an object
  16. 29. Thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering
  17. 30. Rule of thumb
Down
  1. 1. Acquiring knowledge, behaviors, or skills
  2. 3. Trusting in automation more than is warranted
  3. 6. Indirect method of presenting information in reproduced or symbolic form
  4. 7. Collection of equipment and people designed to perform a mission or function
  5. 9. Accomplishment of a task in accordance with standards of accuracy, completeness, and efficiency
  6. 10. Study and measurement of human body dimensions
  7. 13. Context in which a system operates
  8. 16. Amount of light energy striking the surface of an object
  9. 19. Physical movements of the body and body parts
  10. 21. Relationship between physical stimuli and their subjective correlates
  11. 22. Carefully watching a process to collect information
  12. 23. Knobs and dials
  13. 27. Mistake or inaccuracy