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This paper, based on the author’s consultation for the United Nations in 1975, describes a human factors (or ergonomic) approach to simultaneous interpretation in an international organization. A human factors intervention in a human information processing system seeks to solve some real-life problem, such as increasing the effectiveness of individual or system performance, or, as in the United Nations instance, resolving the problems of stress and tension that the system and its processes impose on participants.
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Parsons, H.M. (1978). Human Factors Approach to Simultaneous Interpretation. In: Gerver, D., Sinaiko, H.W. (eds) Language Interpretation and Communication. NATO Conference Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9077-4_27
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