Orchestrating Human-Centered Design

The time has come to move into a more humanistic approach of technology and to understand where our world is moving to in the early twenty-first century. The design and development of our future products needs to be orchestrated, whether they be conceptual, technical or organizational. __Orchestrating Human-Centered Design__ presents an Orchestra model that attempts to articulate technology, organizations and people. Human-centered design (HCD) should not be limited to local/short-term/linear engineering, but actively focus on global/long-term/non-linear design, and constantly identify emergent properties from the use of artifacts. __Orchestrating Human-Centered Design__ results from incremental syntheses of courses the author has given at the Florida Institute of Technology in the HCD PhD program. It is focused on technological and philosophical concepts that high-level managers, technicians and all those interested in the design of artifacts should consider. Our growing software -intensive world imposes better knowledge on cognitive engineering, life-critical systems, complexity analysis, organizational design and management, modeling and simulation, and advanced interaction media, and this well-constructed and informative book provides a road map for this. -- The time has come to move into a more humanistic approach of technology and to understand where our world is moving to in the early twenty-first century. The design and development of our future products needs to be orchestrated, whether they be conceptual, technical or organizational. Orchestrating Human-Centered Design presents an Orchestra model that attempts to articulate technology, organizations and people. Human-centered design (HCD) should not be limited to local/short-term/linear engineering, but actively focus on global/long-term/non-linear design, and constantly identify emergent properties from the use of artifacts. -- Orchestrating Human-Centered Design results from incremental syntheses of courses the author has given at the Florida Institute of Technology in the HCD PhD program. It is focused on technological and philosophical concepts that high-level managers, technicians and all those interested in the design of artifacts should consider. Our growing software -intensive world imposes better knowledge on cognitive engineering, life-critical systems, complexity analysis, organizational design and management, modeling and simulation, and advanced interaction media, and this well-constructed and informative book provides a road map for this Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 1-7 The Orchestra Model....Pages 9-34 Cognitive Engineering....Pages 35-57 Life-Critical Systems....Pages 59-87 The Making of Complex Systems....Pages 89-115 Organization Design and Management....Pages 117-138 Modeling and Simulation....Pages 139-172 Advanced Interaction Media....Pages 173-196 Conclusion....Pages 197-205 Back Matter....Pages 11-11

Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction The Orchestra Model Cognitive Engineering Life-Critical Systems The Making of Complex Systems Organization Design and Management Modeling and Simulation Advanced Interaction Media Conclusion Subject Index.

. This book presents an Orchestra model that attempts to articulate technology, organizations and people. It examines technological and philosophical concepts that managers, technicians and all those interested in the design of artifacts need to consider.