"It's not like people even want a job in their major _ they just want a job, " said Sakara Bey, a senior at Tufts University who is majoring in engineering psychology.
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In his 1999 autobiography, " The Chapanis Chronicles, " he reviewed his career and provided a history of his field, which has been known as psychophysical systems research, engineering psychology, human factors, human engineering and, finally, ergonomics.
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Engineering psychology is concerned with the adaptation of the equipment and environment to people, based upon their psychological capacities and limitations with the objective of improving overall system performance, involving human and machine elements An example of this matching was the redesign of the mailbags used by letter carriers.
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Spence's research interests are in the fields of " engineering psychology, graphical perception, psychophysics, psychometric methods with an emphasis on measurement and scaling, and statistics . " His research projects in the new millennium included " the effective use of colour in scientific visualization, the role of colour in visual memory, individual differences in spatial cognition, and the navigation of dynamic information displays such as web sites ."
