In this article, we offer a new, macroergonomics perspective on the long-debated issue of function allocation. We believe thinking in this domain needs to be realigned, moving away from the traditional microergonomics conceptualisation, concerned predominantly with task-based decisions, and towards a macroergonomics approach, viewing function allocation choices as central to effective systems d...

IMPROVING ERP USABILITY THROUGH USER-SYSTEM COLLABORATION Extended Abstract Wendy Lucas, Tamara Babaian, and Heikki Topi CIS Department Bentley College, Waltham MA, 02452 INTRODUCTION Recent studies strongly suggest that enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have unintuitive user interfaces that hinder usability, frustrate users, and ultimately interfere with their successful adoption and ...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, the country of Mongolia (population 2.8 million) has experienced rapid social changes associated with economic growth, persisting socio-economic inequities and internal migration. In order to improve health access for the urban poor, the Ministry of Health developed a "Reaching Every District" strategy (RED strategy) to deliver an integrated package of key health a...

in 2002, david alexander wrote principles of emergency planning and management. long a standard reference work in that book he described the processes of preparing for and responding to disasters, crises, and civil contingencies. he based the work on principles because he wanted to dissociate it from any particular system of emergency management. then, as now, many books in this subject are tie...

This paper introduces Open Planning Process Panels (O-P3). These panels are based on explicit models of the planning process and are used to coordinate the development and evaluation of multiple courses of action. We describe the generic ideas behind O-P3 technology, a general methodology for building O-P3 interfaces and two applications based on O-P3 technology: the Air Campaign Planning Proce...

This paper introduces Open Planning Process Panels (O-p3). These panels are based on explicit models of the planning process and axe used to coordinate the development and evaluation of multiple courses of action. We describe the generic ideas behind O-P3 technology, a general methodology for building O-P3 interfaces and two applications based on O-P3 technology the Air Campaign Planning Proces...

During the past fifteen years, robot work cells have become a standard component of many industrial production systems. Up to now, the design of a robot work cell or a automated work station for a specific manufacturing process is a demanding task, although tools have been already developed for different design steps. The problem is that each tool is suitable only for one design step such as as...

We consider the issues involved in writing path planners that can work well with complex geometric models of robots and workspaces, and outline our work in implementing a solution. We claim that many path planning problems can be solved by a mixture of global and local planning. In turn, local planning can be usefully supported by the provision of efficient distance computations. Global plannin...

In recent years, there is an increasing demand for improving the efficiency and reliability of urban planning in China, due to the inclusive changes of concepts and contents of urban planning and management. The integrated utilisation of remote sensing and GIS technology in improving urban planning was therefore approached by the author and his research group. The basic methodology of this work...