TY - GEN
T1 - All systems great and small
AU - Baber, Chris
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - In this talk, I want to consider how some concepts inspired by cybernetics could be useful in helping to focus our understanding of ‘systems’. In doing so, the size of a system can become less important than its complexity, and approaches which work for small systems can be scaled to the study of larger systems. The reason why this argument is central to ergonomics is that, for the discipline to develop further, it is important to refine the scientific basis and application of the systems concept.
AB - In this talk, I want to consider how some concepts inspired by cybernetics could be useful in helping to focus our understanding of ‘systems’. In doing so, the size of a system can become less important than its complexity, and approaches which work for small systems can be scaled to the study of larger systems. The reason why this argument is central to ergonomics is that, for the discipline to develop further, it is important to refine the scientific basis and application of the systems concept.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937949692&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84937949692
T3 - Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2015
SP - 3
EP - 10
BT - Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2015
A2 - Waterson, Patrick
A2 - Sharples, Sarah
A2 - Shorrock, Steven
PB - CRC Press/Balkema
T2 - International Conference on Ergonomics and Human Factors, 2015
Y2 - 13 April 2015 through 16 April 2015
ER -