From Don Norman, the author of the famous POET (Psychology of everyday things) a word of wisdom about Human factors:
I’m often asked for reading suggestions, especially for references to the literature on Human Factors and Ergonomics.
In the past few months, I have been reading chapters of one book that has it all: Gavriel Salvendy’s massive tome, the Handbook of human factors and ergonomics. It is huge, with over 1,500 pages and 61 chapters. It takes two pages just to list the advisors, ten pages to list the authors of the chapters. It is also expensive: $250.
Buy it.
The articles are all excellent. They all reflect up-to-date reviews of the areas they cover. They are wonderful self-study material, wonderful references, and would make excellent material in multiple courses. Yes, it is obscenely expensive, but this one book is the equivalent of ten normal books. Consider it as essential piece of professional equipment. Buy it. Use it. Handbook of human factors and ergonomics