Download or read book New Trends in Cooperative Activities written by Michael McNeese and published by Human Factors & Ergonomics Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cooperative activity, whether as teamwork, collaboration, or computer-supported collaborative work, has emerged as a central issue in contemporary human factors....In this book, McNeese, Salas, and Endsley have brought together, in one source, an extraordinary collection of thought leaders who review and extend the present state of knowledge on the dynamics that underlie cooperative activities for a variety of task domains. Collectively, this volume offers new insights regarding the nature of information, cognition, learning, problem solving, mental representation, and situational awareness pertinent to the design of cooperative work environments....This volume will indeed be a useful resource to students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the human factors community." [Kenneth R. Boff, Chief Scientist, Human Effectiveness Air Force Research Laboratory]

Download or read book New Trends in Dynamic Games and Applications written by Jan G. Olsder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of dynamic games is very rich in nature and very much alive! If the reader does not already agree with this statement, I hope he/she will surely do so after having consulted the contents of the current volume. The activities which fall under the heading of 'dynamic games' cannot easily be put into one scientific discipline. On the theoretical side one deals with differential games, difference games (the underlying models are described by differential, respec tively difference equations) and games based on Markov chains, with determin istic and stochastic games, zero-sum and nonzero-sum games, two-player and many-player games - all under various forms of equilibria. On the practical side, one sees applications to economics (stimulated by the recent Nobel prize for economics which went to three prominent scientists in game theory), biology, management science, and engineering. The contents of this volume are primarily based on selected presentations made at the Sixth International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applica tions, held in St Jovite, Quebec, Canada, 13-15 July 1994. Every paper that appears in this volume has passed through a stringent reviewing process, as is the case with publications for archival technical journals. This conference, as well as its predecessor which was held in Grimentz, 1992, took place under the auspices of the International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG), established in 1990. One of the activities of the ISDG is the publication of these Annals. The contributions in this volume have been grouped around five themes.

Download or read book New Trends in Teaching and Learning written by Ms. Sadiya M. Farooque and published by OrangeBooks Publication. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The learning and teaching process is extremely complex and interdependent. The success of teaching is depending on effective and result oriented learning. From the ancient age, there has been a continuous effort to improve this process. Indian and foreign researchers and educationists are constantly studying this process. New concepts, ideas, and theories related to learning and teaching have explored through educational researches. Understanding the process of learning and the idea of innovative changes can be made at all levels. Because of this, new concepts and innovative ideas have continuously come into the education field. Various studies are expanding the teaching process, new techniques and methods have been explored the thorough study of the teaching process to make the learning more effective and qualitative. Of course, not every theory and idea in the field of education is implemented, but the impact of that educational trend is affecting the current education system. In view of this, new ideas and theories and various thought streams related to the teaching and learning in current education have come to be considered here. The present book attempts to present a reflective and analytical perspective of various new trends in the field of teaching and learning.

Download or read book Advancing Collaborative Knowledge Environments New Trends in E Collaboration written by Kock, Ned and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book discusses the latest findings in knowledge-intensive, collaborative environments, focusing on frameworks and solutions for improving collaboration online"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices written by Kjeld Schmidt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information technology has been used in organisational settings and for organisational purposes such as accounting, for a half century, but IT is now increasingly being used for the purposes of mediating and regulating complex activities in which multiple professional users are involved, such as in factories, hospitals, architectural offices, and so on. The economic importance of such coordination systems is enormous but their design often inadequate. The problem is that our understanding of the coordinative practices for which these systems are developed is deficient, leaving systems developers and software engineers to base their designs on commonsensical requirements analyses. The research reflected in this book addresses these very problems. It is a collection of articles which establish a conceptual foundation for the research area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.

Download or read book New Trends in Process Control and Production Management written by Lenka Štofová and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic economics, technological changes, increasing pressure from competition and customers to improve manufacturing and services are some of the major challenges to enterprises these days. New ways of improving organizational activities and management processes have to be created, in order to allow enterprises to manage the seemingly intensifying competitive markets successfully. Enterprises apply business optimizing solutions to meet new challenges and conditions. But also ensuring effective development for long-term competitiveness in a global environment. This is necessary for the application of qualitative changes in the industrial policy. “New Trends in Process Control and Production Management” (MTS 2017) is the collection of research papers from authors from seven countries around the world. They present case studies and empirical research which illustrates the progressive trends in business process management and the drive to achieve enterprise development and sustainability.

Download or read book Fields of Practice and Applied Solutions within Distributed Team Cognition written by Michael McNeese and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many different cognitive research approaches have been generated to explore fields of practice where mutual teamwork is present and emergent. Results have shown subtle yet significant findings on how humans actually work together and when they transition from their own individual roles and niches into elements of teamwork and team-to-team work. Fields of Practice and Applied Solutions within Distributed Team Cognition explores the advantages of teams and shows how researchers can obtain a deep understanding of users/teams that are entrenched in a particular field. Interdisciplinary perspectives and transformative intersections are provided. Features Delineates contextual nuances of socio-technical environments as influencers of team cognition Provides quantitative/qualitative perspectives of distributed team cognition by demonstrating in situ interactions Reviews applied teamwork for fields of practice in medicine, cybersecurity, education, aviation, and manufacturing Generates practical examples of distributed work and how cognition develops across teams using technologies Specifies applied solutions through technologies such as robots, agents, games, and social networks

Download or read book New Trends in Databases and Information Systems written by Tadeusz Morzy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed short papers and workshop papers of the 19th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2015, held in Poitiers, France, in September 2015. The 31 revised full papers and 18 short papers presented were carefully selected and reviewed from 135 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ADBIS Short Papers; Second International Workshop on Big Data Applications and Principles, BigDap 2015; First International Workshop on Data Centered Smart Applications, DCSA 2015; Fourth International Workshop on GPUs in Databases, GID 2015; First International Workshop on Managing Evolving Business Intelligence Systems, MEBIS 2015; Fourth International Workshop on Ontologies Meet Advanced Information Systems, OAIS 2015; First International Workshop on Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage, SW4CH 2015; First International Workshop on Information Systems for AlaRm Diffusion, WISARD 2015.

Download or read book Emerging e Collaboration Concepts and Applications written by Kock, Ned and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a state-of-the-art discussion of conceptual and applied e-collaboration issues. Business organizations increasingly rely on collaborative processes to maintain their competitiveness. E-collaboration technologies are at the source of something that underlies most business, political, and even societal developments - intense human collaboration"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Looking Back Moving Forward written by Elizabeth A. Mannix and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is composed of a series of invited chapters from authors who are central and prolific contributors to the areas of group and team-based research. As such, each chapter provides an excellent overview of the current state of the research and a perspective on where scholars should be focusing their future research.

Download or read book Handbook of Distributed Team Cognition written by Michael McNeese and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary society is held together by interactive groups and teams carrying out work to accomplish various intentions and purposes often within challenging and ill-defined environments. Cooperative work is accomplished through the synergy of human teamwork and technological innovation within domains such as health and medicine; cyber security; transportation; command, control, communication, and intelligence; aviation; manufacturing; criminal justice; space exploration; and emergency crisis management. Distributed team cognition is ubiquitous across and within each of these domains in myriad ways. The Handbook of Distributed Team Cognition provides three volumes that delve into the intricacies of research findings in terms of how cognition is embodied within specific environments while being distributed across time, space, information, people, and technologies. Distributed team cognition is examined from broad, interdisciplinary perspectives and developed using different themes and worldviews. Foundations and Theoretical Perspectives of Distributed Teams Cognition provides an informed view of the history and foundations underlying the development of the field while looking at the theoretical significance of research. Contemporary Research: Models, Methodologies, and Measures in Distributed Team Cognition strengthens these foundations and theories by looking at how research has evolved through the use of different experiments, methods, measures, and models. Fields of Practice and Applied Solutions within Distributed Teams Cognition considers the importance of technological support of teamwork and what it means for applied systems and specific fields of practice. Together these three volumes entwine a comprehensive knowledge of distributed team cognition that is invaluable for professors, scientists, engineers, designers, specialists, and students alike who need specific information regarding history, cognitive science, experimental studies, research approaches, measures and analytics, digital collaborative technologies and intelligent agents, and real world applications; all of which have led to a dynamic revolution in cooperative work / teamwork in both theory and practice.

Download or read book Theories of Team Cognition written by Eduardo Salas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive processes in teams have been a valuable arena for team researchers to explore. Team cognition research advances and informs a variety of disciplines, including cognitive and social sciences, engineering, military science, organizational science, human factors, medicine, and communications. There has been a great deal of progress in the team cognition literature, yet the field is still in its early stages of maturity. There is much more to be gained from the field’s insights and there is a need to unite the diverse array of scholarly ideas that permeate the field. This movement will serve to organize the research and ideas that have surfaced in the field, thereby making them more accessible to different disciplines while at the same time, motivating continued progress in the field. This book aims to be a step in this direction and acts as a forum for leading scholars to share their ideas, theories, models, and conceptions about what matters and where more attention is needed in the field of team cognition.

Download or read book Designing for Situation Awareness written by Mica R. Endsley and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhancing Situation Awareness (SA) is a major design goal for projects in many fields, including aviation, ground transportation, air traffic control, nuclear power, and medicine, but little information exists in an integral format to support this goal. Designing for Situation Awareness helps designers understand how people acquire and interpret information in complex settings and recognize the factors that undermine this process. Designing to support operator SA reduces the incidence of human error, which has been found to occur largely due to failures in SA. Whereas many previous human factors efforts have focused on design at the perceptual and surface feature level, SA-oriented design focuses on the operator's information needs and cognitive processes as they juggle to integrate information from many sources and achieve multiple competing goals. Thus it addresses design from a system's perspective. By applying theoretical and empirical information on SA to the system design process, human factors practitioners can create designs to support SA across a wide variety of domains and design issues. This book serves as a helpful reference to that end.

Download or read book Macrocognition in Teams written by Dr C A P Smith and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Team collaboration involves many operational tasks such as team decision-making or course of action selection, developing shared understanding, and intelligence analysis. These operational tasks must be performed in many situations, often under severe time pressure, with information and knowledge uncertainty, large amounts of dynamic information and across different team characteristics. Recent research in this area has focused on various aspects of human collaborative decision-making and the underlying cognitive processes while describing those processes at different levels of detail, making it difficult to compare research results. The theoretical construct of ‘macrocognition in teams’ was developed to facilitate cognitive research in team collaboration, which will enable a common level of understanding when defining, measuring and discussing the cognitive processes in team collaboration. Macrocognition is defined as both the internalized and externalized mental processes employed by team members in complex, one-of-a-kind, collaborative problem solving. Macrocognition in Teams provides readers with a greater understanding of the macrocognitive processes which support collaborative team activity, showcasing current research, theories, methodologies and tools. It will be of direct relevance to academics, researchers and practitioners interested in group/team interaction, performance, development and training.

Download or read book Safer Surgery written by Lucy Mitchell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating theatres are very private workplaces. There have been few research investigations into how highly trained doctors and nurses work together to achieve safe and efficient anaesthesia and surgery. While there have been major advances in surgical and anaesthetic procedures, there are still significant risks for patients during operations and adverse events are not unknown. Due to rising concern about patient safety, surgeons and anaesthetists have looked for ways of minimising adverse events. Behavioural scientists have been encouraged by clinicians to bring research techniques used in other industries into the operating theatre in order to study the behaviour of surgeons, nurses and anaesthetists. Safer Surgery presents one of the first collections of studies designed to understand the factors influencing safe and efficient surgical, anaesthetic and nursing practice. The book is written by psychologists, surgeons and anaesthetists, whose contributions combine to offer readers the latest research techniques and findings from some of the leading investigators in this field. It is designed for practitioners and researchers interested in understanding the behaviour of operating theatre team members, with a view to enhancing both training and practice. The material is also suitable for those studying behaviour in other areas of healthcare or in high-risk work settings. The aims of the book are to: a) present the latest research on the behaviour of operating theatre teams b) describe the techniques being used by psychologists and clinicians to study surgeons, anaesthetists and theatre nurses' task performance c) outline the safety implications of the research to date.

Download or read book Working Minds written by Beth Crandall and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-07-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to collect data about cognitive processes and events, how to analyze CTA findings, and how to communicate them effectively: a handbook for managers, trainers, systems analysts, market researchers, health professionals, and others. Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) helps researchers understand how cognitive skills and strategies make it possible for people to act effectively and get things done. CTA can yield information people need—employers faced with personnel issues, market researchers who want to understand the thought processes of consumers, trainers and others who design instructional systems, health care professionals who want to apply lessons learned from errors and accidents, systems analysts developing user specifications, and many other professionals. CTA can show what makes the workplace work—and what keeps it from working as well as it might. Working Minds is a true handbook, offering a set of tools for doing CTA: methods for collecting data about cognitive processes and events, analyzing them, and communicating them effectively. It covers both the "why" and the "how" of CTA methods, providing examples, guidance, and stories from the authors' own experiences as CTA practitioners. Because effective use of CTA depends on some conceptual grounding in cognitive theory and research—on knowing what a cognitive perspective can offer—the book also offers an overview of current research on cognition. The book provides detailed guidance for planning and carrying out CTA, with chapters on capturing knowledge and capturing the way people reason. It discusses studying cognition in real-world settings and the challenges of rapidly changing technology. And it describes key issues in applying CTA findings in a variety of fields. Working Minds makes the methodology of CTA accessible and the skills involved attainable.

Download or read book Biosurveillance written by Taha Kass-Hout and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As evidenced by the anthrax attacks in 2001, the SARS outbreak in 2003, and the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009, a pathogen does not recognize geographic or national boundaries, often leading to devastating consequences. Automated biosurveillance systems have emerged as key solutions for mitigating current and future health-related events. Focusing