Technological development has changed the nature of industrial production so that it is no longer a question of humans working with a machine, but rather that a joint human machine system is performing the task. This development, which started in the 1940s, has become even more pronounced with the proliferation of computers and the invasion of digital technology in all wakes of working life. It may appear that the importance of human work has been reduced compared to what can be achieved by intelligent software systems, but in reality, the opposite is true: the more complex a system, the more...
Technological development has changed the nature of industrial production so that it is no longer a question of humans working with a machine, but rat...
Work has gone from being predominantly manual (work with the body) to being predominantly cognitive (work with the mind). Cognitive tasks are everywhere; a work design is effectively cognitive task design. This handbook acts as a single source for theories, models and methods needed for cognitive task design, written by leading experts from around the world. It covers such topics as hierarchical task design; adaptive automation; cognitive task modelling for system design; and applied cognitive work studies.
Work has gone from being predominantly manual (work with the body) to being predominantly cognitive (work with the mind). Cognitive tasks are everywhe...
Written by pioneers in the development of Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE), this book offers a principled approach to studying human work with complex machines. The authors use a top-down, functional approach and emphasize a proactive (coping) perspective on work that overcomes the limitations of the structural human information processing view. They describe a conceptual framework for analysis with concrete theories and methods for joint system modeling that can be applied across the spectrum of single human/machine systems, social/technical systems, and whole organizations. The book...
Written by pioneers in the development of Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE), this book offers a principled approach to studying human work with comp...
Synthesizing basic results on how to design human work with complex systems, Joint Cognitive Systems: Patterns in Cognitive Systems Engineering provides examples of successful cognitive systems engineering research and design. It covers patterns in how joint cognitive systems work and those that have emerged from research and design in this field. The authors discuss basic findings or control laws that determine the behavior and performance of joint systems. They also explore how to design joint coverage systems. This text will be welcomed by practitioners of human factors who are in charge...
Synthesizing basic results on how to design human work with complex systems, Joint Cognitive Systems: Patterns in Cognitive Systems Engineering provid...
The growing dependence of working environments on complex technology has created many challenges and lead to a large number of accidents. Although the quality of organization and management within the work environment plays an important role in these accidents, the significance of individual human action (as a direct cause and as a mitigating factor) is undeniable. This has created a need for new, integrated approaches to accident analysis and risk assessment.
This book detailing the use of CREAM is, therefore, both timely and useful. It presents an error taxonomy which integrates...
The growing dependence of working environments on complex technology has created many challenges and lead to a large number of accidents. Although the...
Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly 'human error'. Countless books and papers have been written about how to identify, classify, eliminate, prevent and compensate for it. This bias towards the study of performance failures, leads to a neglect of normal or 'error-free' performance and the assumption that as failures and successes have different origins there is little to be gained from studying them together. Erik Hollnagel believes this assumption is false and that safety cannot be attained only by eliminating risks and...
Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly 'human error'. Countless books and papers have b...
This book is the 3rd volume in the Resilient Health Care series. Resilient health care is a product of both the policy and managerial efforts to organize, fund and improve services, and the clinical care which is delivered directly to patients. This volume continues the lines of thought in the first two books. Where the first volume provided the rationale and basic concepts of RHC and the second teased out the everyday clinical activities which adjust and vary to create safe care, this book will look more closely at the connections between the sharp and blunt ends. Doing so will...
This book is the 3rd volume in the Resilient Health Care series. Resilient health care is a product of both the policy and managerial ef...
