Woods, D. D. & Hollnagel, E. (2006) Joint cognitive systems: Patterns in cognitive systems engineering. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis.

Summary of Contents

PREFACE

Chapter 1

Core activities and values
Chapter 2 Joint cognitive systems adapt to cope with complexity
Chapter 3 (by R. I. Cook) Being bumpable

Chapter 4

Discovery as functional synthesis

Chapter 5

Shaping the conditions of observation

Chapter 6

Functional synthesis, laws, and design

Chapter 7

Archetypical stories of joint cognitive systems at work

Chapter 8

Anomaly response

Chapter 9

Patterns in multi-threaded work

Chapter 10

Automation surprises
Chapter 11 On people and computers in JCSs at work

Chapter 12

Laws that govern JCSs at work

Bibliography

9 Is Resilience Really Necessary? The Case of Railways

Appendix A

Systems Are never Perfect
Appendix B 10 Structure for Management of Weak and Diffuse Signals

Appendix C

11 Organisational Resilience and Industrial Risk

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