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Engineering Psychology and Human Performance The first few pages (pages 3 and 4-5) provide a solid definition and overview of some human factors issues. Warning: these are big (~200k), jpegs of scanned pages.
Designing the Star User Interface This paper covers the design elements that were applied to Xerox Corporation's famous Star computer which introduced such user interface fundamentals the mouse and GUI.
Famous Lab Redesigns Itself to Give Tech a Human Face This article surveys Xerox PARC's present philosophy and future direction.
Human Factors Guide for Aviation Maintenance Sections 1 and 2 (Introduction, Background) give a little history about human factors and explain why human factors -- as a sub-field of psychology -- is important in trying to reduce human error in aviation mishaps. (In our further study, we will concentrate on Human Factors and the Human Computer Interface, but this excellent on-line source shows how Human Factors does have application to other areas.)

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