Background
Nickerson, Raymond Stephen was born on November 5, 1931 in Bangor, Maine, United States. Son of Raymond W. and Velma Katherine (Rand) Nickerson.
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This volume aims to review some of the recent developments and trends that seem especially relevant to any attempt to understand near-term-future possibilities; to consider what a variety of knowledgeable people are saying about changes and developments that could occur; and to relate the possibilities to needs and opportunities for human factors research. Human factors, in this case, includes not only the implications of human capabilities and limitations for the design of equipment and machines intended for human use, but also applied psychology in a more general sense. In particular, it is taken to involve social systems as well as physical ones, the interaction of people with the environment as well as with machines, the facilitation of communication between people as well as between people and computers, and the design of policies and procedures as well as the design of equipment. The author's intention is to focus on anticipated problems -- including opportunities as well as difficulties -- and ask how human factors research might contribute to solutions. It is assumed that there are ways in which such research could be useful in addressing societal problems that the profession has not yet realized and that these are more likely to be recognized in the future if the community is actively seeking to identify them.
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Industry veteran Raymond Nickerson provides an extensive introduction to the information technology revolution that is transforming industrial society. He focuses particularly on the study of person-computer interaction, noting how computers are affecting their users and society as a whole, and describes a variety of ways in which information technology is expected to develop in the forseeable future.Nickerson summarizes the development of information technology and discusses many of its applications - in farming, research, education and training, manufacturing, general management, retailing, defense, and elsewhere - that have already had a substantial impact on society. He reviews the human-factors research that has been done and is underway, with special attention to the physical and cognitive interface, including languages, conversational interactions, and the concepts of friendliness and usability.Raymond S. Nickerson is Senior Vice President of BBN Laboratories, a subsidiary of Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. A Bradford Book.
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Nickerson, Raymond Stephen was born on November 5, 1931 in Bangor, Maine, United States. Son of Raymond W. and Velma Katherine (Rand) Nickerson.
Master of Arts in Experimental Psychology, University Maine, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Psychology, Tufts University, 1965.
Senior scientist, Bolt Beranek & Newman, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966-1969; division vice president, Bolt Beranek & Newman, Cambridge, 1970-1975; vice president, Bolt Beranek & Newman, Cambridge, 1975-1979; senior vice president, Bolt Beranek & Newman, Cambridge, 1979-1991; retired, 1991. Chairman of Commission on human factors National Research Council, 1991-1994.
(This volume aims to review some of the recent development...)
(This volume aims to review some of the recent development...)
( Industry veteran Raymond Nickerson provides an extensiv...)
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Board directors Massachusetts Association for Retarded Citizens, Waltham, 1974-1985, president, 1976-1979. Member Massachusetts Development Disabilities Council, Boston, 1982-1990. With United States Army, 1955-1957.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association (Franklin V. Taylor award Engineering Psychology division 21, 1991), American Psychological Society, Human Factors Society, Society Experimental Psychologists.
Married Doris Van Sant, August 1, 1953. Children: Daniel (deceased), Nathan, Betsy, Sheri.