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  • Handbook of Systems Thinking Methods

    by Paul M. Salmon, Neville A. Stanton, Guy H. Walker, Adam Hulme, Natassia Goode, Jason Thompson, Gemma J.M. Read ...
    The systems thinking philosophy has become popular in human factors and ergonomics and safety science. These methods are being used to understand and resolve complex societal problems in areas such as transport safety, workplace safety, medication error, disaster management, child abuse, financial crises, terrorism, climate change and public health and wellbeing. This handbook presents practical ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Integrating Human Factors Methods and Systems Thinking for Transport Analysis and Design

    by Gemma J. M. Read, Vanessa Beanland, Michael G. Lenné, Neville A. Stanton, Paul M. Salmon ...
    Series series Human Factors, Simulation and Performance Assessment
    Governments and road safety agencies around the world have either introduced or are considering 'safe system' strategies, a long overdue acknowledgement that different elements of the road system contribute to road safety outcomes. Human factors approaches have a leading role here in both conceptualising the road system as a complex sociotechnical system and in providing practical approaches to ... Read more

    Was $100.99 USD Now $84.99 USD

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  • What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition

    by James Paul Gee ...
    James Paul Gee begins his classic book with "I want to talk about video games--yes, even violent video games--and say some positive things about them." With this simple but explosive statement, one of America's most well-respected educators looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. In this revised edition of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents

    by James Reason ...
    Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This lucid book ... Read more

    Was $72.99 USD Now $61.99 USD

  • Commercial Aviation Safety 5/E

    by Clarence C. Rodrigues, Stephen K. Cusick ...
    A Complete, Fully Updated Guide to COMMERCIAL AVIATION SAFETYPresenting the latest procedures and standards from U.S. and international air traffic and regulatory agencies, this extensively revised resource covers the entire commercial aviation safety system--from human factors to accident investigation. The introduction of Safety Management Systems (SMS) principles by the International Civil ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Visualization Analysis and Design

    by Tamara Munzner ...
    Series series AK Peters Visualization Series
    Learn How to Design Effective Visualization SystemsVisualization Analysis and Design provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of principles and design choices. The book features a unified approach encompassing information visualization techniques for abstract data, scientific visualization techniques ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Acting with Technology

    Activity Theory and Interaction Design

    by Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie A. Nardi ...
    Series series Acting with Technology
    A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with technology.Activity theory holds that the human mind is the product of our interaction with people and artifacts in the context of everyday activity. Acting with Technology makes the case for activity ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Implementing Safety Management Systems in Aviation

    Edited by Alan J. Stolzer, Carl Halford, John J. Goglia ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight Operations
    The International Civil Aviation Organization has mandated that all of its member states implement Safety Management Systems (SMS) in their aviation industries. Responding to that call, many countries are now in various stages of SMS development, implementation, and rulemaking. In their first book, Safety Management Systems in Aviation, Stolzer, Halford, and Goglia provided a strong theoretical ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • User Experience in the Age of Sustainability

    A Practitioner's Blueprint

    by Kem-Laurin Kramer ...
    User Experience in the Age of Sustainability focuses on the economic, sociological and environmental movement in business to make all products including digital ones more sustainable. Not only are businesses finding a significant ROI from these choices, customers are demanding this responsible behaviour. The author looks at user experience practice through the lens of sustainability whether it be ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Trapping Safety into Rules

    How Desirable or Avoidable is Proceduralization?

    by Mathilde Bourrier ...
    Rules and procedures are key features for a modern organization to function. It is no surprise to see them to be paramount in safety management. As some sociologists argue, routine and rule following is not always socially resented. It can bring people comfort and reduce anxieties of newness and uncertainty. Facing constant unexpected events entails fatigue and exhaustion. There is also no doubt ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Design Thinking Research

    Measuring Performance in Context

    Edited by Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book summarizes the results of the third year in the Design Thinking Research Program, a joint venture of Stanford University in Palo Alto and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. Understanding the evolution of innovation, and how to measure the performance of the design thinking teams behind innovations, is the central motivation behind the research work presented in this book. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Fundamental Issues in Defense Training and Simulation

    by George Galanis, Robert Sottilare ...
    Series series Human Factors in Defence
    Defense forces have always invested a great deal of their resources in training. In recent times, changes in the complexity and intensity of operations have reaffirmed the importance of ensuring that warfighters are adequately prepared for the environments in which they are required to work. The emergence of new operational drivers such as asymmetric threats, urban operations, joint and coalition ... Read more

    $80.99 USD