Theory versus practice in the human factors and ergonomics discipline: Trends in journal publications from 1960 to 2010

Chung, Amy Z.Q.; Williamson, Ann

doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2017.07.003

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“…Human concerns have been systematically involved in product design since the mid-20th century. The term human factors and ergonomics (HFE) was developed as a scientific methodology for product, process, and system design to improve human performance, reduce human error, increase productivity, and enhance safety and comfort [45][46][47]. Human-centered design (HCD), defined by ISO 9241-210 and updated in 2019, is an approach to interactive system development aiming to make systems usable and useful by focusing on the users, their needs and requirements, and by applying HFE, and usability knowledge and techniques.…”

Section: Design Strategies Toward Human Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Scoping Review of Ontologies Relevant to Design Strategies in Response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Chou

2021

Sustainability

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Since the initiation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, academia and industry have been taking action to seek how to address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) via research, practice, and community engagement. Due to the UN SDGs comprising comprehensive domain-centric ontologies for reaching a consensus on their achievement, so far there has been a literature gap on how and what product design strategies can help achieve which of the SDGs. Inspired by the implication of creating a better world with design, this study conducted a scoping review to synthesize existing design strategies toward the implementation of the SDGs. More than 110 design strategies/methods were collected and synthesized as evidence to map onto the ontological domains of the SDGs. The results indicate that Goals 8, 9, 11, and 12 can be correspondingly addressed by the current body of design strategies, whereas a gap exists in the design strategies to address Goals 15, 16, and 17. Most of the corresponding strategies can be workable to Goals 3, 4, 6, and 7 to a certain extent and, in a broad sense, are in line with the contextual implications of Goals 1, 2, 5, 10, 13, and 14. This study provides a useful starting point for researchers to explore how design has been contributing to the sustainability goals. It also contributes to existing knowledge of the design discipline by providing methodological guidance for researchers and practitioners to conduct further research and practice on the UN SDGs.

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Section: Design Strategies Toward Human Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Scoping Review of Ontologies Relevant to Design Strategies in Response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Chou

2021

Sustainability

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“…Developing and testing theories is, of course, paramount. Theory frames understanding, helping us to develop evidence to improve organizational choices (Chung & Williamson, 2018). Strong theory testing is also vital to publishing in our top journals that incentivize planned, controlled, longitudinal research designs (e.g., Chen, 2018; Cortina et al, 2017).…”

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The pursuit of organizational impact: hits, misses, and bouncing back

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European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

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Conducting impactful research is a cornerstone of good academic practice. It increases the likelihood that research outcomes are used to generate positive change, e.g., by improving working lives, and delivering improvements in the management, operation, and performance of organizations. This, in turn, makes research relevant, representative, and credible. However, undertaking impactful research is challenging, especially when considered alongside other competing academic pressures and research goals. The purpose of this paper is to consider different approaches to creating impactful research in organizational psychology, and to propose that each approach can help meet different research goals. In particular, we introduce and reflect on the value of building long-term partnerships with organizations to create research impact, and consider lessons that we have learned from doing so. To do this, we conceptualize impact delivery as a socio-technical challenge, and demonstrate this using examples from our collaborations. We conclude with recommendations for those who seek to deliver research impact while grappling with these competing pressures.

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“…The process of disrupting non-reflexive human actions through material means just described is at the core of ergonomics and design theory. These fields are both focused on reordering the ‘interactions among humans and other elements of a system’ in order to shift its conditions of possibility (Chung and Williamson, 2018: 41). Indeed, a particular focus on ‘disrupting’ what are deemed potentially negative non-reflexive behaviours can be found within the subset of ergonomists who explore the conditions for behavioural safety by redesigning material aspects of our interaction with the world in order to decrease risks caused by miscalculation, bounded rationality and System 1-type thinking in settings like road traffic or aviation safety (Dekker, 2014a, 2014b).…”

Section: Designing Against Desire: Towards An Ipermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The social and technical interventions made within ergonomics and/or design theory do not presume the presence of a rational, thinking or reflexive subject. Instead, they (through different means) change behaviour by altering the material, technological or significatory systems in which humans are embedded (Chung and Williamson, 2018; Hancock and Diaz, 2002).…”

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Towards an International Political Ergonomics

Austin

2019

European Journal of International Relations

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This article introduces International Political Ergonomics. International Political Ergonomics is a novel research programme focused on achieving political change through the ergonomic (re)design of world politics. The approach is grounded on a shift across International Relations which recognizes that its epistemic (i.e. knowledge-producing) core is often inadequate to achieve change. Insights from the practice turn and behaviouralist International Relations, as well as from philosophy, sociology and neuroscience, demonstrate that much international behaviour is driven by the ‘unconscious’ or ‘non-reflexive’ re-articulation of repertoires of actions even where the pathologies of this process are known. This implies that knowledge production and dissemination (i.e. to policymakers, global publics) is often unable to effect influence over social practices. What is thus required is a non-epistemic means of producing world political change. International Political Ergonomics is a research programme that takes up this task. It does so by describing how small material interventions into world politics can radically shift individual behaviours by encouraging greater rationality, reflexivity and deliberation. After laying out the theoretical basis for this claim, the article demonstrates it by detailing the application of International Political Ergonomics to violence-prevention efforts. The article concludes by reflecting on the radical implications that International Political Ergonomics has for the vocation of International Relations.

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Theory versus practice in the human factors and ergonomics discipline: Trends in journal publications from 1960 to 2010

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

A Scoping Review of Ontologies Relevant to Design Strategies in Response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

A Scoping Review of Ontologies Relevant to Design Strategies in Response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The pursuit of organizational impact: hits, misses, and bouncing back

Towards an International Political Ergonomics

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