Joint cognitive systems : patterns in cognitive systems engineering /

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Author / Creator:Woods, David D., 1952- author.
Imprint:Boca Raton : CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006.
©2006
Description:1 online resource (ix, 219 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13593690
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Other authors / contributors:Hollnagel, Erik, 1941- author.
ISBN:9781420005684
1420005685
9780849339332
0849339332
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-203) and indexes.
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Summary:The authors explore how cognitive systems engineering (CSE) observes at the intersection of people, technology, and work, how CSE abstracts patterns behind the surface details and wide variations, and how CSE discovers promising new directions to help people cope with complexities.
Other form:Print version: Woods, David D., 1952- Joint cognitive systems. Boca Raton : CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006 0849339332
Standard no.:10.1201/9781420005684
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Core Activities and Values
  • Adaptability versus Limits
  • Complementarity
  • Core Values of CSE in Practice
  • On Systems in CSE
  • Patterns
  • Discovering Patterns in Joint Cognitive Systems at Work
  • A JCS at Work
  • Joint Cognitive Systems Adapt to Cope With Complexity
  • Adaptation in Joint Cognitive Systems at work
  • Being Bumpable
  • The Story: A Delay
  • The Intensive Care Unit the Scene, the Cast, and BackDrop
  • Coping with Complexity: Parceling out beds by the Bedmeister
  • Artifacts as Tools: The Bed Book
  • Preparing for Demand > Supply Situations
  • Son of coping: Building an ICU from Scratch
  • Piling Pelion on Ossa: Escalating Demands
  • Observations on the Incident
  • Discovery as Functional Synthesis
  • 'Being Bumpable' as An Example of Studying a JCS at work
  • Insight and Functional Synthesis
  • Shaping the Conditions of Observation
  • Three Families of Methods
  • Converging Operations
  • The Psychologist's Fallacy
  • Functional Syntheses, Laws, and Design
  • Properties of Functional Syntheses
  • On Laws that Govern Joint cognitive Systems at Work
  • Challenges To Inform Design
  • Patterns in How Joint Cognitive Systems Work
  • Archetypical Stories of Joint Cognitive Systems at Work
  • Demands and Adaptation
  • Affordances
  • Coordination
  • Resilience
  • Story Archetypes in 'Being Bumpable'
  • Anomaly Response
  • Control Centers in Action
  • Cascading Effects
  • Interventions
  • Revision
  • Fixation
  • Generating Hypotheses
  • Recognizing Anomalies
  • The Puzzle of Expectancies
  • Control of Attention
  • Alarms and Directed Attention
  • Updating Common Ground When a Team Member Returns
  • Updating a Shared Frame of Reference
  • Patterns in Anomaly Response
  • Patterns in Multi-Threaded Work
  • Managing Multiple Threads in Time
  • Tempo
  • Escalation
  • Coupling
  • Premature Narrowing
  • Reframing
  • Dilemmas
  • Over-Simplifications
  • Automation Surprises
  • The Substitution Myth
  • Surprises about Automation
  • Brittleness
  • Managing Workload in Time
  • Tailoring
  • Failure of Machine Explanation
  • Why is technology so Often Clumsy?
  • Making Automation a Team Player
  • A Coordination Breakdown in Response to a Disrupting Event
  • On People and Computers in Jcss at Work
  • Envisioning The Impact of New Technology
  • Responsibility in Joint Cognitive Sytems at Work
  • Problem-Holders
  • Goal Conflicts
  • Adapting to Double Binds
  • Literal-Minded Agents
  • Norbert's Contrast
  • Directions for Designing Joint Cognitive Systems that Include Robotic Platforms
  • Reverberations of New Robotic Technologies
  • Laws that Govern Jcss at Work
  • A Tactic to Reduce the Mis-Engineering of Joint Cognitive Systems
  • Five Families of First Principles or Laws
  • Laws That Govern Joint Cognitive Systems at work
  • Generic Requirements to Design Joint Cognitive Systems that Work
  • Design Responsibility
  • Patterns and Stories
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix A.
  • Appendix B.
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index