Woods' plenary address at the International Ergonomic Association congress in 2000, "Complementarity and Synchronization as Strategies for Practice-Centered Research and Design." The talk provides a new approach to R&D that replaces the discredited 'pipeline' model with synchronized cycles. The result is a guide for management.

The content is available as a book chapter "Balancing Practice-Centered Research and Design." by D.D. Woods and K. Christoffersen. In M. McNeese and M. A. Vidulich (editors), Cognitive Systems Engineering in Military Aviation Domains. Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: Human Systems Information Analysis Center, 2002, p. 121-136. (See the entry Practice-Centered Design under Foundations or Design categories for more including animations of the chapter figures.)

The approach is part of a Topic Landscape on Studying Cognitive Work in Context (section 3) Facilitating Insight

To see the approach in action on the topic of human-robot-interaction see the paper: Human-Robot Coordination pdf