ALMOST 50 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANHUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING SUMMER CONFERENCE

摘要

In 1957 Paul Fitts and Daniel Howland offered a human factors summer course at Ohio State University.Fitts moved to Michigan in 1958, and the next year he offered essentially the same course in Ann Arbor.The course has been given every summer since then. An estimated 3500 students from a diverse set ofindustries and countries have completed one or two weeks of the course. The list of lecturers includesmany of the leaders who have shaped the field of Human Factors Engineering (HFE), and the course hasgradually morphed from focusing on operators working with traditional hardware systems first to users ofinteractive computer systems and now to complex systems that incorporate computers and peopleubiquitously. This paper will trace this history and comment on a few of the inevitable anecdotes that gowith 50 years of experience.