Human factors of a global society

No review available on this record. Title : Human factors of a global society : a system of systems perspective Material Type: printed text Authors: Tadeusz Marek, Editor ; Waldemar Karwowski, Editor ; Marek Frankowicz, Editor ; Jussi Kantola, Editor ; Pavel Zgaga, Editor Publisher: Boca Raton : CRC Publication Date: 2014 Series: Ergonomics design and management theory and applications Pagination: xxvii, 1149 p. Layout: ill. Size: 29 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-1-466-57286-7 General note: Includes index (p. 1093-1149) Includes bibliographical references Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Human engineering Technology - Social aspects Class number: 920.8 Abstract: During the last 60 years the discipline of human factors (HF) has evolved alongside progress in engineering, technology, and business. Contemporary HF is clearly shifting towards addressing the human-centered design paradigm for much larger and complex societal systems, the effectiveness of which is affected by recent advances in engineering, science, and education. Human Factors of a Global Society: A System of Systems Perspective explores the future challenges and potential contributions of the human factors discipline in the Conceptual Age of human creativity and social responsibility. Written by a team of experts and pioneers, this book examines the human aspects related to contemporary societal developments in science, engineering, and higher education in the context of unprecedented progress in those areas. It also discusses new paradigms for higher education, including education delivery, and administration from a systems of systems perspective. It then examines the future challenges and potential contributions of the human factors discipline. While there are other books that focus on systems engineering or on a specific area of human factors, this book unifies these different perspectives into a holistic point of view. It gives you an understanding of human factors as it relates to the global enterprise system and its newly emerging characteristics such as quality, system complexity, evolving management system and its role in social and behavioral changes. By exploring the human aspects related to actual societal developments in science, the book opens a new horizon for the HF community. Contents note: Human Factors and Technology; Psychology; Management; Higher Education; Education in Modern Society; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=16260

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Modern RISC-Societies

No review available on this record. Title : Modern RISC-Societies Material Type: printed text Authors: Lučka Kajfež-Bogataj, Editor ; Karl H. Müller, Editor Publisher: Wien : edition echoraum Publication Date: 2010 Pagination: 570 p. Layout: ill. Size: 23 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-3-901941-23-8 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-550) Includes index (p. 559-569) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Globalization - Social aspects Progress Risk-Sociological aspects Social structure Technology - Social aspects Class number: 303 Abstract: Between 2007 and 2009 the University of Ljubljana initiated a trans-disciplinary research program on rare events with strong societal repercussions and effects, which has been labeled as RISC-Program(rare incidents, strong consequences).In this process, the university established a small unit that sought to act as a catalyst for promoting trans-disciplinary research on rare events across a wide variety of domains both inside and outside the social sciences. The RISC-unit organized a series of talks, lectures, workshops and research activities, which highlighted the current knowledge frontiers on rare events as well as the available policy recommendations and best practices in reducing hazards and disasters related to rare events. From its overall goals, these RISC-activities were intended as a model for a new type of trans-disciplinary knowledge production that draws together expertise in the social, physical, biological and technical sciences to address urgent societal problems. The present volume summarizes he advances of these RISC-activities and points to the high relevance of the new RISC-based perspective on societal problems both at present and in the future. Contents note: An Overview on RISC-Research : RISC-Processes and Societal Coevolution: Towards a Common Framework; RISC Modeling and RISC Theory: A discussion of Zipf's law; Bubbles everywhere in human affairs; New models for generating power law distributions; RISC-Processes and their weak societal protection networks; Zipf's law in labor status transitions: new insights from Austrian labor market data; Self-reflexive, contagious, attraction-driven networks(SCANs):towards a new Transdisciplinary framework for RISC-Modeling; The organizing of promises: finance capital as Tensegrity system; The poverty of economic explanations RISC-Applications: Weather and Climate related natural hazards; The RISC potential of converging technologies; Risk, crisis and control: between fear and negligence; RISC-Prevention and damage control: Natural and other disasters: a social work perspective; Secondary disaster and social work; "Tsunami project": a case of a collaborative project between two universities; Seismic isolation for asymmetric building structures; Towards Inter- and Transdisciplinary forms of science: Socio-economics and a new scientific paradigm; Turning science transdisciplinary: Is it possible for the new concept of cross-disciplinary cooperation's to enter Slovenian science and policy; Approaches to Interdisciplinary collaborative research; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=17055

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