Students ’ use of social media in collaborative design: a case study of an advanced interior design studio
AbstractSocial media, essential in everyday activity, have been frequently used in the performance of collaborative tasks as well as in collaborative learning in academia due to their interactive and open nature. Thus, understanding design students ’ selective use and evaluation of social media in collaborative design is worthwhile. This paper reports a case study of design students’ use of social media in the collaborative design process in an advanced interior design studio class. A total of 27 junior interior design students at a univer sity in Korea participated in the study, engaging in a semester-long team projec...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - September 16, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Self-report measures for the assessment of human –machine interfaces in automated driving
AbstractFor a successful market introduction of Level 3 Automated Driving Systems (L3 ADS), a careful evaluation of human –machine interfaces (HMIs) is necessary. User preference has often focused on usability, user experience, acceptance and trust. However, a thorough evaluation of measures when applied to ADS HMIs is missing. We investigated the appropriateness of nine self-reported measures in terms of reliability and validity. A sample ofN = 57 participants completed two 15-min simulator drives with a L3 ADS. They experienced two variations of a HMI that differed in the degree of complying with common guideline...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - September 15, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Trust, choice, and self-preservation: a computational approach
AbstractTrust tends to be described through the lens of a rational choice of a trustor driven by the trustworthiness of a trustee. This, however, does not exhaust scenarios where people seem to be comfortable trusting without having an actual choice or not trusting while having a selection of potential trustees. This paper proposes that there should be another force at work that only expresses itself through the rationality in situations of choice. It is the self-preservation that strongly influences our decisions, specifically when choices seem to diminish. Ignoring this force makes the theory of trust incomplete. This pa...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - September 15, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Designing fine-grained interactions for automation in air traffic control
AbstractOur work aims to explore novel approaches to the challenge of designing the interaction between people and automation. Through a case study within the domain of air traffic control, we focus on designing fine-grained human –automation interactions. We design a concept and develop an interactive lo-fi prototype of an assisted sketching system to enable air traffic controllers to interact with automation in a fine-grained manner and to externalize mental images. Assisted sketching seems to offer a possible way to comm unicate different degrees of predictive certainty using visual cues and interaction. Our insights ...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - September 13, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Operationalising resilience for disaster medicine practitioners: capability development through training, simulation and reflection
AbstractResilience has in recent decades been introduced as a term describing a new perspective within the domains of disaster management and safety management. Several theoretical interpretations and definitions of the essence of resilience have been proposed, but less work has described how to operationalise resilience and implement the concept within organisations. This case study describes the implementation of a set of general resilience management guidelines for critical infrastructure within a Swedish Regional Medical Command and Control Team. The case study demonstrates how domain-independent guidelines can be cont...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - September 11, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Psychological influences on drivers ’ yielding behavior at the crosswalk of intersections
AbstractPedestrian safety is vital, especially when it comes to crossing at intersections. Setting pedestrian safety facilities is one of the solutions to provide a safer environment for pedestrians to cross at intersections. And most studies have focused on the influence of pedestrian safety facilities on drivers ’ yielding behavior. Meanwhile, psychological factors underlying drivers’ decisions to yield to pedestrians have received little attention. The current study explored the relationship between drivers’ yielding behavior and psychological factors using a questionnaire mainly designed based on th e extended th...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - September 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
FRAM AHP approach to analyse offshore oil well drilling and construction focused on human factors
AbstractSince the beginning of the well-drilling activities of oil and gas industry, in the 19th century, these activities have presented specific risks that, over the course of their evolution to the present day, have greatly increased their potential to cause harm to people, the environment, and corporate sustainability. Stimulated by the world ’s energy needs, especially in developed and growing countries, the technology used by the O&G industry has evolved significantly, not only to increase production and profit levels, but also to reduce the risks of these activities, using reliable automation and other barrier...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - September 8, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Selecting lighting system based on workers ’ cognitive performance using fuzzy best–worst method and QUALIFLEX
This study was conducted on a control room, consisting of 16 operators. The cognitive performance and sleepiness of the subjects were evaluated under three illumination systems: fluorescent lamps (230 lux); fluorescent lamps and LEDs (415 lux), and LEDs (210 lux). The weights of the criteria determined by the FBWM and systems were ranked using the QUALIFLEX. In the morning shift, the simple cognitive function (FDST) and the complex cognitive function (BDST) indices for the fluorescent and LED-illumination system showed the best values. In addition, in the evening shift, the FDST index for the fluorescent and LED-illumin...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - September 2, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
You ’ve got mail: does workplace telepressure relate to email communication?
AbstractEmail is ubiquitous at the workplace. However, only few studies have empirically investigated the cognitive underpinning of computer-mediated business communication in general or work-related email behaviour in particular. In this paper, we further explored the relationship between workplace telepressure and two specific behavioural outcomes (i.e., email reply quantity and email response latency) by examining email traffic in a convenience sample of 55 employees who used their business email address daily during a typical workweek. Results of hierarchical regression analyses revealed that employees ’ workplace te...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - August 26, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Seeing through the mist: an evaluation of an iteratively designed head-up display, using a simulated degraded visual environment, to facilitate rotary-wing pilot situation awareness and workload
This study explores the impact of an iteratively designed HUD on pilots ’ workload and situation awareness during the safety-critical descent and landing flight phases, during both clear and degraded visual conditions across a series of simulated trials. Results suggest that access to the HUD facilitated pilot awareness, whilst maintaining workload in all conditions. Results support the view that HUDS are beneficial to rotary-wing pilots, particularly in degraded visual environments. (Source: Cognition, Technology and Work)
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - August 23, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Design for assembly meaning: a framework for designers to design products that support operator cognition during the assembly process
AbstractDesigning assembly instructions is mostly considered to be a non-designer task. Hence, in many companies, it is performed by production planners or instructional designers. However, analysing product components and looking for clues on how these components can be fitted together into a subassembly or final product is a fundamental part of assembly. Product designers play an important role in the way these components are perceived by the operator. This paper discusses the need and importance of a new approach to product design focused on how the assembly design can promote meaning to the operator, supporting operato...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - August 13, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
A human reliability assessment of marine auxiliary machinery maintenance operations under ship PMS and maintenance 4.0 concepts
AbstractMaintenance is one of the core technical aspects on board ships, which is required for the ready availability, reliability, and efficiency of machinery equipment. As machinery systems are critical for merchant ships, inadequate maintenance operations lead to serious consequences, including total loss of the vessel. The most commonly used maintenance approach on board a ship is a planned maintenance schedule (PMS). Since a PMS is highly dependent on human effort, human reliability comes into force as an important issue. However, the latest maintenance approaches, such as maintenance 4.0, focus on reducing the human ...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - August 12, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Utility assessment in automated driving for cooperative human –machine systems
AbstractCurrently, car manufacturers, suppliers, and IT companies are surpassing each other with ambitious plans regarding their driving automation technology. However, even the most optimistic announcements grant that, for a certain time, a human driver cannot be replaced in all driving situations. Hence, human drivers will still be a part of future traffic by working together with automation systems. Analyzing the joint decision-making process of such a human –machine system in automated driving provides a better understanding of the resulting traffic system. In this paper, a driving simulator study with 33 participant...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - August 12, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Joining the blunt and the pointy end of the spear: towards a common framework of joint action, human –machine cooperation, cooperative guidance and control, shared, traded and supervisory control
AbstractTo introduce this special issue of shared and cooperative control, we will look into history of tools in cooperation between humans and aim to unify the plethora of related concepts and definitions that have been proposed in recent years, such as shared control, human –machine cooperation and cooperative guidance and control. Concretely, we provide definitions to relate these concepts and sketch a unifying framework of shared and cooperative control that sees the different concepts as different perspectives or foci on a common design space of shared intentional ity, control and cooperation between humans and mach...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - August 7, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Interventions to support the management of work-related stress (WRS) and wellbeing/mental health issues for commercial pilots
AbstractResearch indicates that sources of work-related stress (WRS) impact on the physical, social, and psychological health of pilots. Furthermore, specific features of the job can increase a pilot ’s risk in relation to developing a mental health (MH) issue. It is impossible to remove all stress from the work life of pilots. A high stress situation may not necessarily be detrimental to the person, once they have learned to cope with it in a healthy manner. Nonetheless, risk pertaining to WR S need to be effectively managed by a pilot’s employer. Therefore, it is important to identify solutions at an airline and pilo...
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - August 1, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
