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Keith Duncan
Bio: Keith Duncan is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Industrial and organizational psychology & Social psychology (sociology). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 477 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the nature of human error and the implications for the design of modern industrial installations from the point of view of cognitive psychology, social psychology and safety engineering.
Abstract: This book is about the nature of human error and the implications for design of modern industrial installations. It is the first book discussing the topic from the point of view of cognitive psychology, social psychology and safety engineering. Advanced students, researchers and professional psychologists in industrial psychology/human factors and engineers or systems designers concerned with man-machine systems will find this book essential reading.
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01 Dec 2014
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning and the zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. The emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning 3. The zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research 4. The instruments of expansion 5. Toward an expansive methodology 6. Epilogue.
5,768 citations
TL;DR: It is argued that risk management must be modelled by cross-disciplinary studies, considering risk management to be a control problem and serving to represent the control structure involving all levels of society for each particular hazard category, and that this requires a system-oriented approach based on functional abstraction rather than structural decomposition.
2,547 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new accident model based on basic systems theory concepts, which provides a theoretical foundation for the introduction of unique new types of accident analysis, hazard analysis, accident prevention strategies including new approaches to designing for safety, risk assessment techniques, and approaches to design performance monitoring and safety metrics.
1,898 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define organizational processes necessary to operate safely technologically complex organizations that can do great physical harm to themselves and their surrounding environments, and identify nuclear powered aircraft carriers as examples of potentially hazardous organizations with histories of excellent operations.
Abstract: This paper is concerned with defining organizational processes necessary to operate safely technologically complex organizations that can do great physical harm to themselves and their surrounding environments. The paper first argues that existing organizational research is little help in understanding organizational processes in such organizations. It then identifies nuclear powered aircraft carriers as examples of potentially hazardous organizations with histories of excellent operations. The paper then examines a set of components of “risk” identified by Perrow (1984) and antecedents to catastrophe elucidated by Shrivastava (1986) and discusses how carriers deal with these factors to lessen their potentially negative effects. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research.
849 citations
TL;DR: The Ecological Interface Design (ED) as mentioned in this paper is a theoretical framework in the smart instrument vein that postulates a set of general, prescriptive principles for design of work environments.
Abstract: Recently, a new class of artifacts has appeared in our environment: complex, high-technology work domains. An important characteristic of such systems is that their goal-relevant properties cannot be directly observed by the unaided eye. As a result, interface design is a ubiquitous problem in the design of these work environments. Nevertheless, the problem is one that has yet to be addressed in an adequate manner. An analogy to human perceptual mechanisms suggests that a smart instrument approach to interface design is needed to supplant the rote instrument (single-sensor-single-indicator) approach that has dominated to this point. Ecological interface design (ED) is a theoretical framework in the smart instrument vein that postulates a set of general, prescriptive principles for design. The goal of E D is twofold: first, to reveal the affordances of the work domain through the interface in such a way as to take advantage of the powerful capabilities of perception and action; and second, to provide the a...
470 citations