PSYC 161. Engineering Psychology (4 units)
Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/PSYC.html#psyc161
Description
This course provides a survey of psychological findings relevant to designing “user-friendly” computers and devices and improving aviation and traffic safety. Topics include human perception as it pertains to displays and image compression, human memory limitations relevant to usability, and nature of human errors. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
Prerequisite courses
PSYC 161 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have PSYC 161 as a prerequisite.