A major technological shift is occurring in the railways giving rise to new safety concerns.
The speed in which change is occurring along with technological trends is significant for an …

This volume is the first comprehensive history of task analysis, charting its origins from the
earliest applied psychology through to modern forms of task analysis that focus on the study …

This article reports the results of a qualitative study investigating attitudes towards and
opinions of an advanced automation system currently used in UK rail signalling. In-depth …

The assumed role of humans as controllers and instructors of machines is changing. As
systems become more complex and incomprehensible to humans, it will be increasingly …

The recent market success of in-car navigation systems creates an opportunity to investigate
the appropriation of location-aware systems outside laboratory settings. Through …

The objective to obtain the" Habilitation à diriger des recherches" is not a usual way for a
French research engineer to pursue a carrier. Nevertheless, the LAMIH gave me the …

Organizations big and small have started to realize just how crucial system and application
reliability is to their business. Theyâ?? ve also learned just how difficult it is to maintain that …

This thesis examines the effect of automation in the rail signalling environment. The level of
automation in a system can be described as ranging along a continuum from manual control …

This paper describes how sociotechnological systems comprising human and technological
agents can be considered problem solving systems. Problem solving systems typically …

This article is concerned with enhancing agent coordination in modern sociotechnological
systems. To this end, sociotechnological systems are conceptualized as problem solving …