Abstract
Domain visualization attempts to present the interrelationships between research areas by spatially representing the fields or sub fields of science. The science of human factors has grown over the past decade. In addition, sub specialties within the field have developed making it even more complex to understand. As a future human factors practitioner, understanding a multidisciplinary field such as this necessitates a domain analysis because of its evolutionary and complex nature. This paper reports the preliminary results of this analysis using author co-citation analysis (ACA) and three domain visualization tools, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, and Pathfinder Networks. Sixty authors were mapped selected from core ergonomics, human factors (HF) and human computer interaction (HCI) journals. Preliminary results suggest that ergonomics is treated as a separate entity, while HF and HCI are more intertwined with some key researchers forming the core of the research community. Future research directions are discussed.
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