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Stories of Modern Technology Failures and Cognitive Engineering Successes
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eBook - PDF
Stories of Modern Technology Failures and Cognitive Engineering Successes
About this book
A woman is operated on while she's awake...
A plane runs out of gas while circling an airport for 30 minutes...
A passenger liner is mistaken for an enemy fighter and shot down...
A company invests in a new system that will cost them money...
What do these failure have in common? How can we prevent them from happening again?
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Yes, you can access Stories of Modern Technology Failures and Cognitive Engineering Successes by Nancy J. Cooke,Frank Durso in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Industrial Engineering. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Authors
- Chapter one. Background and Perspective
- Chapter two. Harnessing landmine expertise
- Chapter three. Not too old to drive
- Chapter four. "Get this...on the ground"
- Chapter five. Number please
- Chapter six. " You guts better take good care of me"
- Chapter seven. Too many cooks
- Chapter eight. Decisions at sea
- Chapter nine. In their own words: the cognitive engineers speak from the trenches
- Chapter ten. Commentary by William C. Howell
- Index
- Back cover