Cognitive Systems Engineering

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Cognitive Systems Engineering
Center for Cognitive Systems Engineering

• Risoe National Laboratory
• Systems Analysis Department
• Denmark

• University of Washington
• Information School
• USA

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Cognitive Systems Engineering
Center for Cognitive Systems Engineering

• Research objectives
• Effective and safe operation of socio-technical
  systems
• User friendly and safe consumer products
• Expertise in society about analysis and design

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Cognitive Systems Engineering
Center for Cognitive Systems Engineering

• Succes criteria
• CSE Methods and models
• Evaluation and experiments of prototypes
• Intra-and Internets
• Collaboratories
• Ecological Information Systems
• Ecological Interfaces
• Ecologial Classification Schemes
• Teaching Cognitive Systems Engineering
• universities, industry and consumers
• Curriculum in CSE teaching

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Cognitive Systems Engineering
Center for Cognitive Systems Engineering

• Socio-technical systems
• Design of communication and decision systems that
  serve as effective interfaces between decision
  makers and their work domain
• Collaboratory for loosely coupled work among
  organisations in different countries

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Cognitive Systems Engineering
Center for Cognitive Systems Engineering

• Socio-technical systems
• Design of communication and decision systems that
  serve as effective interfaces between decision
  makers and their work domain
• Collaboratory for loosely coupled work among
  organisations in different countries

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Cognitive Systems Engineering
Center for Cognitive Systems Engineering

• Socio-technical systems
• Aircraft safety supported by distributed
  information centres on the ground Field study at
  Boeings centres
• Virtual organisations in industry Danfoss,
  CCI-Europe, A9

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Cognitive Systems Engineering
Center for Cognitive Systems Engineering

• Socio-technical systems
• Intranet-internet analysis for decision making
• E-commerce and intelligent agents
• Education
• Product development at Boeing
• Evaluating E-governmentality in the Danish Public
  Sector

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Cognitive Systems Engineering
Center for Cognitive Systems Engineering

• Safe and user-friendly consumer products
• Safety of trucks field study at Danfoss
• Userfriendly software field study at Microsoft

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Cognitive Systems Engineering
Center for Cognitive Systems Engineering

• Usefulness for Society
• Improved effective, safe and user-friendly
  socio-technical systems and consumer products
• Expertise in analysis, design and evaluation
• Teachning Cognitive Systems Engineering at
  University level, for industry and consumers
• Research and teaching collaboration with Center
  at University of Washington and other CSE Centers