Human-Tech

Ethical and Scientific Foundations

Kim Vicente (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2010
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-976514-0 (ISBN)

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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 is 'not by widgets alone,' Vicente's Human-tech approach addresses every level--physical, psychological, team, organizational, and political--at which technology impacts quality of life, identifies a human or societal need, and then tailors technology to what we know about human nature at that level. The Human Factor was written for a broad audience, in part to educate general readers beyond the HTI community about the need to think seriously about the tremendous impact that poorly designed technology can have, ranging from user frustration to the tragic loss of human life. The articles collected in this book provide much of the technical material behind the work that was presented in The Human Factor, and the commentaries by Alex Kirlik situate these articles in their broader historical, scientific and ethical context. This collection of articles and commentaries forms a set of recommendations for how HTI research ought to broaden both its perspective and its practical, even ethical, aspirations to meet the increasingly complicated challenges of designing technology to support human work, to improve quality of life, and to design the way will live with technology. As the first book both to integrate the theory and research underlying Human-tech, and to clearly delineate the scientific challenges and ethical responsibilities that await those who either design technology for human use, or design technology that influences or even structures the working or daily lives of others, Human-tech: Ethical and Scientific Foundations will appeal to the broad range of students and scholars in all of the HTI disciplines.

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.)

Author Index
Subject Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.10.2010
Reihe/Serie	Human Technology Interaction Series
Zusatzinfo	38 illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 160 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-19-976514-6 / 0199765146
ISBN-13	978-0-19-976514-0 / 9780199765140
Zustand	Neuware