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Regardless of the heated nature of our debates and arguments, we must of necessity move on into the future. In this brief paper, I present some ideas regarding future directions for HF research. I trust and believe that my colleagues will not only commit to looking into these topics, but also add their own to the list. Our combined efforts and energies channeled into these topics will move us further along as we seek answers to the severe socioeconomic and sociopolitical problems of people all over the world--especially in the developing countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regardless of the heated nature of our debates and arguments, we must of necessity move on into the future. In this brief paper, I present some ideas regarding future directions for HF research. I trust and believe that my colleagues will not only commit to looking into these topics, but also add their own to the list. Our combined efforts and energies channeled into these topics will move us further along as we seek answers to the severe socioeconomic and sociopolitical problems of people all over the world--especially in the developing countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses a decade of human factor research, specifically the pioneering work of Adjibolosoo and the literature that his work has engendered. We argue that the framework that drives that passion requires some critical retooling if it is to provide the analytical sophistication for dealing with the complexities that characterize the development process. We also make the case that the framework puts forward several concepts that tend to be undertheorized, and their linkage to development assumed rather than critically demonstrated. A corollary to this is the fact that it is methodologically weak in that it fails to provide valid measures for the concepts that are supposed to be the basis for judging the success of human factor engineering efforts, and hence socio-economic development. We conclude with some suggestions for refining and strengthening the framework to make it theoretically and methodologically rigorous, and empirically robust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]