Looking Back, Looking Forward: 55 Years of Human Factors

摘要

When I began my tenure as editor in chief of Human Factors, I thought it would be informative to look at previously published editorials in the journal. I was intrigued by what I found in the first issue, published in 1958. Stanley Lippert, the first editor in chief, introduced the publication with an informal, conversational essay titled "A Home of Our Own." He wrote about human factors specialists finally having their own journal, no longer forced to publish in the "literary homes of friends and relatives." A glance at the other articles in the first issue stood in stark contrast to the more recent articles to which I have become accustomed.