Course description

Quota of 75 students. Enrolment will close once quota is reached. This course conveys fundamental principles of human factors psychology, which is the science and practice of understanding the fit between people and the systems they work with. The course also introduces some key ideas underlying cognitive systems engineering. Course is constructed around site visits to two kinds of safety-critical workplaces: we anticipate they will be transportation or other control centres (e.g., roadway control rooms), healthcare (critical care or patient safety environments), or similar kinds of complex workplaces. We study challenges of human-system fit in such workplaces from the perceptual, cognitive, social, and organisational points of view.

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