This paper provides an introduction to Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) and Ecological Interface Design (EID), as important complements to more conventional Human Factors Engineering approaches. These complementary perspectives are essential for supporting productive thinking in complex work domains, such as healthcare. We suggest that EHR systems provide a unique opportunity to take advanta...

Examining vulnerabilities within our current healthcare system we propose borrowing two tools from the fields of engineering and design: a) Reason's system approach 1 and b) User-centered design 23. Both approaches are human-centered in that they consider common patterns of human behavior when analyzing systems to identify problems and generate solutions. This paper examines these two human-cen...

The business community has learned the value of design thinking as a way to innovate in addressing people's needs--and health systems could benefit enormously from doing the same. This paper lays out how design thinking applies to healthcare challenges and how systems might utilize this proven and accessible problem-solving process. We show how design thinking can foster new approaches to compl...

Introduction An influential conjecture in neuroscience states that a brain organized according to principles of hierarchical predictive coding (HPC) can effectively and efficiently perform genuine Bayesian inferences, providing a neurally plausible account of how Bayesian models of cogntion may be physically implemented in the brain. However, each key subcomputation invoked in HPC potentially h...

passing trough industrial revolution to achieve postmodern era, development of production and distribution facilities, development of communications, and economic and development of society structural changes and lack of accountability of functional industrial design to the human psychological needs, other products based on the particular response to the needs of a limited component design, suc...