Epilogue: Where Are They Now?
in Taming Information Technology
August 2012; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: general issues in technology. 5555 words.
This chapter contains the follow-up interviews, conducted five to seven years after the initial observations, with seven of the system administrators described in previous chapters of the book. These...
Ethical and Social Issues in Multiuser Virtual Environments
in Being There Together
November 2010; published online January 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: general issues in technology. 7193 words.
The use of multi-user virtual environments for social research raises a variety of ethical issues. Among these are the conditions under which interactions should be recorded and how information can...
Findings and Lessons
in Taming Information Technology
August 2012; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: general issues in technology. 6459 words.
This chapter tells what was learned overall. Through the focus on grounding, distributed cognition, and evolution, the chapter develops a set of high-level lessons for IT management. The chapter...
The Future of Being There Together
in Being There Together
November 2010; published online January 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: general issues in technology. 6812 words.
This chapter synthesizes what is known about how people interact in virtual environments. One argument that has been made in the book is that there are only two end-states to technologies for being...
Human error and the problem of causality in analysis of accidents
in Human Factors in Hazardous Situations
July 1990; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: general issues in technology. 7976 words.
Analyses of the major accidents during recent decades have concluded that human errors on the part of operators, designers, or managers have played a major role. There are, however, several basic...
Human error on the flight deck
in Human Factors in Hazardous Situations
July 1990; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: general issues in technology. 5579 words.
Despite terrorist bombs and structural failures, human error on the flight deck continues to account for the majority of aircraft accidents. The Royal Air Force (RAF) Institute of Aviation Medicine...
Human Factors in Hazardous Situations
July 1990; published online March 2012.
Book. Subjects: general issues in technology. 156 pages.
Human performance is a key factor in the operation of many systems: for example, in nuclear power installations and in transport. The topics discussed in this volume are of both theoretical and...
Human-Tech
September 2010; published online January 2011.
Book. Subjects: general issues in technology. 296 pages.
This book coins 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...
A Human-tech Research Agenda and Approach
in Human-Tech
September 2010; published online January 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: general issues in technology. 10444 words.
This chapter presents the reprinted article “Toward Jeffersonian Research Programmes in Ergonomics Science” by Kim Vicente. Here, Vicente presents and advocates a Human-tech research approach and...
Introduction
in Human-Tech
September 2010; published online January 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: general issues in technology. 1765 words.
This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the human-technology interaction (HTI) approach. It then explains the rationale behind the compilation of HTI research articles in this...