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Cognition and Safety: An Integrated Approach to Systems Design and Assessment
Author(s) -
Clarke David M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00851_1.x
Subject(s) - citation , cognition , computer science , psychology , library science , psychiatry
are designed, assessed and innovated throughout time. Sträter addresses the gap between the design of safety systems, on the one hand, and operation, on the other. Methods and models for human behavior in design focus on system workload or situational awareness, while operation relates to human error. A homogeneous approach towards notions like human error, workload and situational awareness is aimed at being integrated in this book by making use of existing knowledge of human cognition without, as the author claims, ‘reinventing the wheel’.