Putting new techniques in action: using TopicLandscapes, Animocks, and scenario-based design to support collaborative envisioning across practitioners, technologists, and cognitive engineers. The case is envisioning the role of new sensor technologies in military urban operations.
Production at url MOUT TopicLandscape or download draft paper Collabortive envisioning for MOUT pdf
For the theory see:
Practice-Centered Design link
Envisioned World Problem link
Northwest Passage in Design link
For the techniques see:
Animocks link
TopicLandscapes link
CSEL work on Remote perception and new concepts for understanding a remote environment through a robot's sensors is described at HRC and Remote Perception link
Latest paper Keyhole in HRI pdf
This covers work by Martin Voshel, Magnus Feil, James Tittle, David Tinapple, and David Woods.
For the general approach to HRI see: Human Robot Coordination
Electronic course, Behind Human Error -- building Performance Experts in Safety (PEXiS).
error e-course
Topic Landscape that covers fundamental patterns in cognitive work in five families including Laws of Adaptation, Models, Cooperation, Responsibility, plus Norbert's Contrast. Norbert's Contrast provides an alternative model of coordination of people and automata that supercedes the substitution myth and Fitts' List. Laws
Introduction to the laws: Cognitive Science Society Plenary pdf
Applying principles for escape from data overload to technical communication and collaboration -- e.g., "navigation mechanisms should be a model of the topic being navigated (Woods, 1997)"
See Topic Landscapes in action:
First mature example CSE Methods TopicLandscape
Earliest prototype Design Seeds TopicLandscape
Using acrobat Laws TopicLandscape
Recent use MOUT TopicLandscape
An approach to R&D that replaces the discredited 'pipeline' model with synchronized cycles. The result is a guide for management.
"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.
The chapter is based on Woods' plenary address at the International Ergonomic Association congress in 2000, "Complementarity and Synchronization as Strategies for Practice-Centered Research and Design." Multi-media animations from this talk provide dynamic illustrations of the chapter figures (see also part 3 of a Topic Landscape on Studying Cognitive Work in Context Facilitating Insight html
To see the approach in action on the topic of human-robot-interaction see the paper: Human-Robot Coordination pdf
Using CTA to Seed Design Concepts for Intelligence Analysts under Data Overload, Multi-media production. design concepts
The design concepts innovated based on studies of inferential analysis.
Great introduction to Cognitive Engineering in a Multi-media production titled
"W3: Watching Human Factors Watch People at Work". Topics include Kubrick's Bone, Faustian bargains, and several Oversimplification Fallacies that block our ability to understand cognition at work. President's Address
Produced by D.D. Woods and D. Tinapple, it was Woods' Presidential Address at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, September 28, 1999.
APOLLO 13 WHERE'S WALDO GAME
David D. Woods, Emily Patterson, James Corban
An illustration of design principles
Avaiable at Where's Waldo Game of Design