The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction

The field of human-machine interaction (HMI), as Boy (director, Human-Centered Design Institute, Florida Institute of Technology) describes it, "attempts to rationalize relevant attributes and categories that emerge from the use of (computerized) machines." It focuses on principles of safety, performance, comfort, and aesthetics in relation to human physical, cognitive, social, and emotional factors. He presents 20 chapters that discuss approaches, methods, and tools for understanding HMI in the context of design and propose a human-centered design approach that is an upstream process that enables a design team to incorporate human requirements into the design of a system through the application of Boy's "AUTOS pyramid," relating the entities of Artifact (system), User, Task, and Organizational Environment. Twenty chapters discuss this system as well as other perspectives on human-machine interaction as they concern methods and tools for human-centered design and engineering. They are organized into sections on analysis, design and engineering, and evaluation. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Guy A. Boy is University Professor and Director of the Human-Centered Design Institute (HCDi) at the Florida Institute of Technology, Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and Chief Scientist for Human-Centered Design at NASA Kennedy Space Center. Until 2008 he was President of EURISCO International (European Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Engineering) and had managed the organization since its creation in 1992. An engineer and psychologist, he received his Doctorate in 1980 from the Ecole Nationale SupAcrieure de l'AAcronautique et de l'Espace (SUPAERO: French Aerospace Institute of Technology), his Professorship Habilitation (HDR) from Pierre and Marie Curie's University (Paris VI), and his Full Professorship Qualifications in Computer Science and Psychology. He introduced and taught cognitive engineering at SUPAERO. A researcher at l'ONERA (The French Aerospace Lab) from 1977 to 1988, Boy was seconded at NASA-Ames Research Center from 1984 to 1986 in the Aerospace Human Factors Research Division. He then joined NASA as the Leader of the Advanced Interaction Media Group from 1989 to 1991. His research focused on safety-critical systems, human-centered design and automation, cognitive engineering and ergonomics, electronic documentation and aerospace systems. He developed various methods and techniques that include the Group Elicitation Method (GEM), Cognitive Function Analysis (CFA), and the Active Design Documents (ADDs). Guy Boy is the author of three major books and more than 200 scientific and technical papers. He is an expert in Information Society and Technology for the European Commission and an expert for the European Space Agency (ESA) for the definition of the overall human-machine interaction and artificial intelligence research program in 1991. He was a legal expert for aircraft accident investigations from 1992 to 1994. From 1995 to 1999, Boy was the Executive Vice-Chair ACM-SIGCHI (Association for Computing Machinery-Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction). From 2002 to 2005, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the French National Center for Technological Research in Aerospace (CNRT-AE). He is a Permanent Member of the Academy of Air and Space; the Vice-President and co-founder of the Cognitique Institute (IdC: a major Engineering training program in France, teaching cognitive engineering, and created in 2004) where he holds the position of Visiting Professor. Boy is the Chair of the Technical Committee on AeroSpace Human Factors and Ergonomics (TCASHFE) of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). He was was the coordinator of the RoHMI (Robust Human-Machine Interaction) Network of Excellence (DG XII, European Commission) from 1994 to 1996 and the scientific coordinator of WISE (Web-enabled Information System for Engineering) project (IST) from 2001 to 2004. He has been the coordinator of the PAUSA (Authority distribution in air traffic management) project (French government, Ministry of transportation) since 2006.