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  • Cognitive Work Analysis

    Toward Safe, Productive, and Healthy Computer-Based Work

    by Kim J. Vicente ...
    This book describes, for the first time in pedagogical form, an approach to computer-based work in complex sociotechnical systems developed over the last 30 years by Jens Rasmussen and his colleagues at Risø National Laboratory in Roskilde, Denmark. This approach is represented by a framework called cognitive work analysis. Its goal is to help designers of complex sociotechnical systems create ... Read more

    $156.99 CAD

  • The Human Factor

    Revolutionizing the Way We Live with Technology

    by Kim Vicente ...
    What links the frustrations of daily life, like VCR clocks and voicemail systems, to airplane crashes and a staggering “hidden epidemic” of medical error?Kim Vicente is a professor of human factors engineering at the University of Toronto and a consultant to NASA, Microsoft, Nortel Networks and many other organizations; he might also be described as a “technological anthropologist.” He spends his ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Human Factor

    Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

    by Kim J. Vicente ...
    In this incessantly readable, groundbreaking work, Vincente makes vividly clear how we can bridge the widening gap between people and technology. He investigates every level of human activity - from simple matters such as our hand-eye coordination to complex human systems such as government regulatory agencies, and why businesses would benefit from making consumer goods easier to use. He shows us ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Human-Tech

    Ethical and Scientific Foundations

    by Kim Vicente ...
    Series series Human Technology Interaction Series
    In The Human Factor, Kim Vicente coined the term 'Human-tech' to describe a more encompassing and ambitious approach to the study of Human-Technology Interaction (HTI) than is now evident in any of its participating disciplines, such as human factors, human-computer interaction, cognitive science and engineering, industrial design, informatics or applied psychology. Observing that the way forward ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Local Applications of the Ecological Approach To Human-Machine Systems

    Edited by Peter A. Hancock, John M. Flach, Jeff Caird, Kim J. Vicente ...
    Series series Resources for Ecological Psychology Series
    There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a ... Read more

    $187.99 CAD

  • Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human-Machine Systems

    Edited by John M. Flach, Peter A. Hancock, Jeff Caird, Kim J. Vicente ...
    Series series Resources for Ecological Psychology Series
    There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

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  • Allegiant

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