Citation

Gielo-Perczak K, Karwowski W. Ergonomics 2003; 46(1-3): 310-326.

Affiliation

Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety & Health, 71 Frankland Road, Hopkinton, MA 01748, USA. Krystyna.Gielo-Perczak@LibertyMutual.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00140130303536

PMID

12554413

Abstract

This paper proposes a complementary approach to Rasmussen's taxonomy of the human skill-, rule-, and knowledge-based performance models by combining the ecological concept of affordances with the neural concepts of human emotion and intuition. The classical cognitive engineering framework is extended through the neuro-ecological approach, including personal human attributes important in exercising control over the work environment. The proposed affordance-, emotion-, and intuition-based models correspond to the three types of human performance, namely: learning, adaptive and tuning control, respectively. The new framework is not a predictive model of the operator behaviour, but rather it describes the processes of neuro-ecological control of the human environment.

Language: en