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Publisher's Note: Human Performance and Ergonomics is a comprehensive and modern account of how the context of performance is crucial to understanding behavior. Environment both imposes constraints on and provides opportunities to individuals, such that external conditions may have reciprocal or interactive effects on behavior. The book begins with an account of research in human factors and engineering, with application of research to real-world environments, methodological concerns, and rumination on current and future trends. The book proceeds to describe how technology has moved from being designed to help human physical survival to helping humans achieve 'quality of life' improvements. Real-world examples, including hearing technology, driving, and aviation, are explored in detail. Issues of control, maneuvering, and planning are discussed in conjunction with how intention and expectancy affect behavior. The fit between human and environment is examined as a dynamic interaction, and many chapters address the all-important human- machine communication, particularly that between humans and computers. The book closes with a reminder that even our technological environment is filled with other people, with whom we must interact personally or via technology to achieve our larger goals. An example of this is teamwork, which integrates cognitive, behavioral, and affective components toward achieving our desired aims.