Talk:Engineering psychology

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[edit] added gategory

Why did all the (Pages needing expert attention | Articles to be expanded | Articles lacking sources | All pages needing to be wikified | Wikify from October 2006) jumped into gategories box? Mtjs0 15:43, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

Do we really need another buzzword. There are 172,000 hits of "engineering psychology" and 10,500,000 hits on ergonomics. This page should either merge or be used exclusively to contrast the differences if any. Oicumayberight 19:01, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

It's the same thing but if it is merged I think engineering psychology should be included in the introduction. Mtjs0 22:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Merge - I agree with Mtjs0. --Ronz 23:39, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

While there are shades of difference between "human factors" and "engineering psychology", I have mostly used these terms interchangeably in teaching and writing. So I vote for "merge". Pmjones 22:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Seems to be an old discussion (e.g. http://www.hfes.org/Web/EducationalResources/HFDefinitions.pdf). The fact that several books have been written on the subject and many universities teach it should result in an article in its own right. Human factors includes many parts (e.g. anthropmetry) that have nothing to do with engineering psychology. Martin Hollender 20:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

If the entire scope of engineering psychology can be explained within the context of engineering ergonomics or human factors, then it is a subset of either and should be part of that article to avoid duplication at the risk of becoming inconsistent or incomplete information on the wikipedia. The fact that there isn't much to be said about engineering psychology out side of the context of ergonomics or human factors, explains why this article is so small compared to those articles. Personally, I think the term is potentially ambiguous. It could potentially refer to the study of the psychographics of engineers. Oicumayberight 20:48, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
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