Information Processing

Information Processing is the sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information. According to Shannon and Weaver, information is the reduction in uncertainty (1948). This according to me is a very outdated definition of information, and is more applicable to time in which it was written. In the 1940's sciences were no that advanced as today and people did not have enough information on various phenomenon. However, now due to …showed first 75 words of 2460 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2460 total…this where exactly human factors engineering comes in; we take human factors into account (discussed in the first paper) and try make the machine as user friendly as possible. This will not only mean that the person who is operating the machine more reliable, but also he will be able to get the best results out of the machine thereby increasing productivity and efficiency, which at the end of it all is what everyone wants.