Cognitive engineering for better health care systems

Abstract:

The discipline of cognitive engineering began more than 30 years ago in response to newly recognized challenges faced by people working in and controlling complex, high-technology systems. These challenges resulted in part from a fundamental shift of work away from physical labor to sophisticated cognitive tasks such as sense making, planning, diagnosing, and decision making. System designers and researchers recognized that the cognitive work demands imposed by these systems—characterized by complex, interconnected, and dynamic components; increasing levels of automation; and an ever-wider reach—could lead to errors with potentially disastrous outcomes. In fact, high-profile accidents in domains of nuclear power (Three Mile Island; Chernobyl), aviation (Air France Flight 296), and military systems (USS Vincennes; USS Stark) both demonstrated the need for, and led to advanced research in, a new framework of cognitively informed system design—cognitive engineering.

Año de publicación:

2014

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scopus