Traditionally, Systems Analysis and Design (SAD) research has focused on ways of working and ways of modeling. Design ecology – the task, organizational and political context surrounding design – is less well understood. In particular, relationships between design routines and products within ecologies have not received sufficient attention. In this paper, we theorize about design product and e...

This paper presents the results of two experiments to assess the benefits of using Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) and Ecological Interface Design (EID) to guide the development of driver support systems. EID suggests novel interface alternatives that have substantial theoretical promise. However, it is not possible to anticipate how drivers will perceive and respond to these displays. Two experi...

Cities all over the world are challenged by increasing the quality of life of urban citizens in order to ensure sustainable urban development. However, a lot of policies and planning fail in integrating environmental aspects in a way that makes them applicable for design leading to rather unsustainable developments. This paper presents an approach to integrate ecological parameters into urban d...

Many physical diseases have been reported to be associated with psychosocial factors. In these diseases, assessment relies mainly on subjective symptoms in natural settings. Therefore, it is important to assess symptoms and/or relationships between psychosocial factors and symptoms in natural settings. Symptoms are usually assessed by self-report when patients visit their doctors. However, self...

Ecological momentary assessment and/or experience sampling methods are increasingly used in health studies to study subjective experiences within changing environmental contexts. In these studies, up to 30 or 40 observations are often obtained for each subject. Because there are so many measurements per subject, one can characterize a subject's mean and variance and can specify models for both....

introduction: water shortage is a crucial challenge that threatens future of landscape development in iran. naturally it intensifies by climate change that will be led to water stress of ecosystems. the water stress have confronted universities campus landscape with serious challenges especially those that located in arid and semi-arid areas such as center of iran. malayer university has had se...

A full-scope simulation study with licensed nuclear power plant operators was conducted to evaluate whether displays designed using Ecological Interface Design (EID) could support improved Situation Awareness over traditional displays. EID demonstrated performance advantages over traditional displays in beyond-design basis scenarios where operators were unable to rely on procedures. The same ef...

B ernd W rackm eyer* , H eid i E. M aisei, Jü rgen Süß, W olfgang M ilius Laboratorium für Anorganische Chemie der Universität Bayreuth. D-95440 Bayreuth Z. Naturforsch. 51b, 1320-1324 (1996); received March 14, 1996 Tetra-l-alkynylsilanes, 1,1-Organoboration, Siloles, X-Ray Tetra-l-alkynylsilanes, Si(CsCR*)4 with R 1 = 'Bu (1) and SiMe3 (2) react with triethylborane, E t3B. by intermolecular 1...

The abstraction hierarchy analysis tool developed by Vicente and Rasmussen (1992) for Ecological Interface Design (EID) provides an in depth understanding of work domain constraints and information requirements. EID and work domain analysis (WDA) have been successfully applied in several fields. However, application in the medical domain has proven to be much more difficult. This study examines...