References

The Chapanis Chronicles: 50 Years of Human Factors Research, Education, and Design

Alphonse Chapanis (1999)

Aegean Publishing, 256.

URL: https://archive.org/details/chapanischronicl0000chap

Abstract. Chapanis's memoir of human factors research, including his WWII investigation of gear-up landings in the US Army Air Forces that traced the problem to identical-looking landing-gear and flap controls and led to shape-coded knobs, one of the first documented applications of human factors engineering.

Tags: human-factors history

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