Human Practice in the Life Cycle of Complex Systems: Challenges and Methods.

摘要

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.