Cognitive Work Analysis: Toward Safe, Productive, and Healthy Computer-Based Work

by Kim J. Vicente

Book Overview

This book describes, for the first time in pedagogical form, an approach to computer-based work in complex sociotechnical systems developed over the last 30 years by Jens Rasmussen and his colleagues at Ris National Laboratory in Roskilde, Denmark. This approach is represented by a framework called cognitive work analysis. Its goal is to help designers of complex sociotechnical systems create computer-based information support that helps workers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805823972
• ISBN13: 9780805823974
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 10.0"