Human-Tech

Kim J. Vicente is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is author of Cognitive Work Analysis: Toward Safe, Productive, and Healthy Computer-Based Work, and The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way We Live with Technology. Alex Kirlik is Professor of Computer Science, Psychology, and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is editor of Adaptive Perspectives on Human-Technology Interaction: Methods and Models for Cognitive Engineering and Human Computer Interaction and co-editor of Attention: From Theory to Practice.

Preface (K.J.V.)

Acknowledgments


1. Introduction (A.K.)

2. The Origins of Human-tech (A.K.)

3. A Human-tech Research Agenda and Approach (A. K.)

Reprint: Toward Jeffersonian research programs in ergonomics science (K.J.V.)

4. Inventing Possibilities: Understanding Work Systems and Tasks (A.K.)

Reprint: A theoretical note on the relationship between work domain analysis and task analysis
(K.J.V.)

5. Psychological Distance: Manipulating an Interface versus Controlling a System (A.K.)

Reprint: Toward theory-driven, quantitative performance measurement in ergonomics science:
The abstraction hierarchy as a framework for data analysis (K.J.V.)

6. Statistics for Human-tech Research (A.K.)

Reprint: The Earth is spherical (p < 0.05): Alternative methods of statistical inference (K.J.V.)

7. Constructing the Subject: Cognitive Modeling (A. K.)

Reprint: Operator modeling in a complex, dynamic work environment: a qualitative cognitive
model based on field observation (K. J. V.)

8. Sociotechnical Systems, Risk and Error (A.K.)

Reprint: The Walkerton E. coli outbreak: a test of Rasmussen's framework for risk management
in a dynamic society (K. J. V.)

9. Nested Systems: Economic, Cultural and Political Dimensions (A.K.)

Reprint: Human factors engineering that makes a difference: Leveraging a science of societal
change (K.J.V.)

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