Human practice in the life cycle of complex systems
Subtitle: challenges and methods
By: Maaria Nuutinen, Juha Luoma, (eds.).
Contributors: Nuutinen, Maaria.; Luoma, Juha.; Valtion teknillinen tutkimuskeskus.
Series: VTT publications -- 582.; VTT julkaisuja -- 582.
Publisher: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Espoo, Finland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9789513866754; 9789513866761
Subjects: User-centered system design.; Human engineering.
Description: This book describes the current and near future challenges in work and traffic environments in light of the rapid technology development. It focuses on the following domains: road and vessel traffic, nuclear power production, automatic mining, steel factory and the pulp and paper industry. Each example concerns complex technical systems where human practice and behaviour has an important role for the safety, efficiency and productivity of the system.  The articles illustrate the enormous field of human-related research when considering the design, validation, implementation, operation and maintenance of complex socio-technical systems. Nevertheless, these 14 chapters are only examples of the range of questions related to the issue. The authors of the book are VTT experts in work or traffic psychology and research, system usability, risk and safety analysis, virtual environments and they have experience in studying different domains.  This book is an attempt to open up the complex world of human-technology interaction for readers facing practical problems with complex systems. It is aimed to help a technical or organisational designer, a policy-maker, an expert or "a user", the one who works or lives within the technology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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