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Conceptual Frameworks
Four conceptual frameworks motivate research at the
CEL: Trust in Automation, Cognitive Work Analysis, Ecological
Interface Design, and Risk Management Framework.
- Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA)
- Traditional work analyses focus on centralized
forms of work organization. CWA shifts the focus to more distributed
forms of work organization, thereby providing a better basis
for supporting worker adaptation in turbulent, dynamic environments.
- Ecological Interface Design (EID)
- EID is a theoretical framework for designing
interfaces for complex work environments. It examines the constraints
that the environment imposes on behavior, and tries to take
advantage of the powerful, but often ignored, capabilities
of perception and action.
- Trust in Automation
- Automation is becoming a larger component of many workplaces as computers become increasingly sophisticated. New automated tools are found in fields as diverse as process control, information technology and the military. Only through proper automation design can we achieve safe, healthy and efficient interaction between people and automation, and to inform design, a theoretical model is needed.
- Risk Management Framework
- Rasmussen’s framework for risk management
identifies the various levels in a sociotechnical system that
must be vertically aligned to safeguard the public and the
environment, as well as several forces that affect the structure
and behavior of these levels in a dynamic society.
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