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ReferencesNavigation arrowAuthorsNavigation arrowHarold P. Van Cott

Publication statistics

Pub. period:1987-1995
Pub. count:6
Number of co-authors:14



Co-authors

Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Beverly Messick Huey:1
Donna Churchill-Teran:1
Earl Weiner:1

 

 

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Harold P. Van Cott's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Christopher D. Wic..:75
Colin G. Drury:32
Thomas B. Sheridan:22
 
 
 
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1995
 
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Cott, Harold P. Van, Weiner, Earl, Wickens, Christopher D., Blackman, Harold S. and Sheridan, Thomas B. (1995): "Smart Automation Enhances Safety": A Motion for Debate. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 39th Annual Meeting 1995. pp. 448-449.

“The Debate Resolution: Attempting to structure the benefits and hazards of rapidly evolving technologies within an envelope that defines what is safe, feasible and economically viable, is difficult. While experts may not have a neat way to do this in hand, they can sometimes piece together experience and wisdom in interesting ways and occasionally strike a spark that illuminates the darkness. Toward this end four authorities in human performance and automaton. will debate the following proposition, stated in the form of a resolution "Be it Resolved: That Smart Automation Enhances Safety."”

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1993
 
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Cott, Harold P. Van (1993): Human Error in Health Care Delivery: Cases, Causes and Correction. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 37th Annual Meeting 1993. pp. 846-848.

“Health care delivery is viewed as a complex, people-intensive system whose reliability depends on human performance. Examples of the human errors that occur in health care are described, and human factors interventions and remedies that might be taken to improve reliability and safety are suggested.”

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1991
 
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Huey, Beverly Messick and Cott, Harold P. Van (1991): Workload Transition: A Neglected Phenomenon. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 35th Annual Meeting 1991. pp. 974-975.

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1989
 
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Cott, Harold P. Van (1989): The National Research Council Committee on Human Factors. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 33rd Annual Meeting 1989. pp. 568-570.

“The Committee on Human Factors, a standing committee of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC), advises its sustaining sponsors and other requesting organizations on issues involved in the design of socio-technical systems and on the research and methods needed to help enhance their operability and safety. This paper describes the origins, purposes, operations and program of the committee and emphasizes the special attributes of this and other NAS/NRC committees.”

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1987
 
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Smith, Leighton L., Banks, William W., Chapanis, Alphonse, Drury, Colin G., Hendrick, Hal W., Laveson, Jack I., Meister, David and Cott, Harold P. Van (1987): The Case of the Missing Human Factors Data. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 31st Annual Meeting 1987. pp. 1042-1043.

“Human factors practitioners are continuously running into inadequate or missing data. This situation prevents or impedes the resolving of design dilemmas at hand. Why is this so? Is it because there are not enough researchers working in the empirical community? Are the empiricists not generating enough data? Perhaps the data that are being compiled are unusable. Is it because the data are redundant? Is it because the data are incompatible with other data sets? Are the current data sets too specific, i.e., ungeneralizable to broad applications? Or are the data that are available invalid, i.e. generated improperly? Are there any avenues that human factors specialists can pursue which would resolve this problem? Are there any policies or practices which could be developed which, if followed, would ensure more effective and usable data in the future? Is there any interest among Human Factors Society members to advocate any of the suggested activities? If so, how should this interest be best utilized? The panel will be represented by members from the practitioning community, the research community, and the academic community. The panel will be comprised of members of the Human Factors Society who will bring with them over a century of accumulated experience and thousands of published pages on human factors topics.”

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Bauman, Marjorie B., Churchill-Teran, Donna and Cott, Harold P. Van (1987): The Effects of an Automated Maintenance Management System on Organizational Communication. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 31st Annual Meeting 1987. pp. 1161-1165.

“This paper describes Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) sponsored case studies of two nuclear power plants that automated their maintenance management system in an effort to improve maintenance processing. These case studies evaluated the impact of an automated maintenance management system (AMMS) on the organizational interfaces and information requirements of a variety of system users. The goal of the project was to provide guidance to the electric power industry in maintenance management system design. A product of the investigation was a set of guidelines for use by utilities in conducting a front-end functional requirements analysis to help define major information requirements and organizational and data file interfaces.”

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Publication statistics

Pub. period:1987-1995
Pub. count:6
Number of co-authors:14



Co-authors

Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Beverly Messick Huey:1
Donna Churchill-Teran:1
Earl Weiner:1

 

 

Productive colleagues

Harold P. Van Cott's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Christopher D. Wic..:75
Colin G. Drury:32
Thomas B. Sheridan:22
 
 
 
Jun 18

“ Computer programs emerge as the outcome of complex human processes of cognition, communication and negotiation, which serve to establish the meaningful embedding of the computer system in its intended use context. ”

-- Floyd, 1992, p. 24

 
 

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Read the fascinating history of Wearable Computing, told by its father, Steve Mann

Read Steve's chapter !

 
 

Latest books

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