Design for flexibility : a human systems integration approach / Guy André Boy.
2021
QA76.9.H85
Linked e-resources
Linked Resource
Online Access
Concurrent users
Unlimited
Authorized users
Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied
Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks
Details
Title
Design for flexibility : a human systems integration approach / Guy André Boy.
Author
Boy, Guy A.
ISBN
9783030763916 (electronic bk.)
3030763919 (electronic bk.)
3030763900
9783030763909
3030763919 (electronic bk.)
3030763900
9783030763909
Publication Details
Cham : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-76391-6 doi
Call Number
QA76.9.H85
Dewey Decimal Classification
004.01/9
Summary
Design for flexibility requires anticipation, preparation, creativity and experience. Future highly digital sociotechnical systems should contrast with those stemming from technology-centered engineering that produces objects and machines with the immensely codified and rigid practices we know today. Most of the time, current technologies are designed and developed for normal situations, leaving users to manage abnormal and emergency situations themselves, sometimes under unforeseen, extreme and/or dangerous conditions. Putting humans at the center of the design of flexible sociotechnical systems means visualizing possible futures, modeling them, simulating them and leading them down the right paths. This book is for the engineering designers, who seek to better understand the roles of humans and organizations developing complex life-critical systems. It is also for those who train future designers who will have to take into account the well-being, safety, sustainability and efficiency of the actors of future sociotechnical systems. It is about an emergent discipline, human systems integration (HSI). The aim of the flexibility challenge is to put the artificial at the service of the natural, and not the other way around. The author, an aerospace engineering designer, has worked for 40 years in the field of human-centered design (HCD) of complex systems, discovering repeatedly that automation leads to rigidity, especially when things go wrong. It is urgent we had a new paradigm where flexibility is a major asset in human systems integration. HCD is seen here as the combination of practices and technologies to come.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 28, 2021).
Series
SpringerBriefs in human-computer interaction, 2520-1670
Human-computer interaction series.
Human-computer interaction series.
Available in Other Form
Design for flexibility.
Linked Resources
Online Access
Record Appears in
Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
All Resources
Table of Contents
Introduction
A framework for flexibility analysis in sociotechnical systems
A few methodological clarifications
Articulating human systems integration
Activity-based design: Scenarios, HSI evolution and innovation
Model-based human systems integration flexibility
The unavoidable issue of tangibility
Conclusion.
A framework for flexibility analysis in sociotechnical systems
A few methodological clarifications
Articulating human systems integration
Activity-based design: Scenarios, HSI evolution and innovation
Model-based human systems integration flexibility
The unavoidable issue of tangibility
Conclusion.