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The Day that Changed Everything: From Paralysis to Growth

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 09/02/2023

Some people can identify a day where everything changed in a way that was previously unimaginable. For Dennie Coumans, this day came at the end of December 2017. What happened totally reshaped his life.

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We Need to Talk About Engineering

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 09/02/202231/03/2023

When it comes to human performance, most efforts to understand work are dedicated to operational roles such as air traffic controllers and professional pilots. In this article, I outline five challenges for engineers in the drive for digitalisation.

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About the Author

Steven Shorrock is an interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in human work from multiple perspectives.

Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) & Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist (CErgHF)

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Human Factors & Ergonomics in Practice

'Human Factors & Ergonomics in Practice' concerns the real practice of human factors and ergonomics (HF/E), conveying the perspectives and experiences of practitioners and other stakeholders in a variety of industrial sectors, organisational settings and working contexts. Buy direct from Routledge.

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  • Four Kinds of ‘Human Factors’: 2. Factors of Humans
  • The HAL 9000 Explanation: “It Can Only Be Attributable to Human Error”
  • 'Human Error': Still Undefined After All These Years
  • Alarm Design: From Nuclear Power to WebOps
  • The Archetypes of Human Work: 1. The Messy Reality
  • Four Kinds of Human Factors: 3. Factors Affecting Humans
  • The Varieties of Human Work

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