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Ansari, Fazel; Seidenberg, Ulrich – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
This paper discusses the complementarity of human and cyber physical production systems (CPPS). The discourse of complementarity is elaborated by defining five criteria for comparing the characteristics of human and CPPS. Finally, a management portfolio matrix is proposed for examining the feasibility of optimal collaboration between them. The…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cybernetics, Feasibility Studies, Human Factors Engineering
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Scott, Glen; Winiecki, Donald J. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
Human performance technology (HPT), like other concepts, models, and frameworks that we use to describe the world in which we live and the way we organize ourselves to accomplish valuable activities, is built from paradigms that were fresh and relevant at the time it was conceived and from the fields of study from which it grew. However, when the…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Human Factors Engineering, Performance Factors, Classification
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Pearlstein, Richard B. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
Most executives have not heard of human performance technology (HPT), but a recent Google search showed 25 times more Google hits for "lean six sigma" than for "human performance technology." This article describes five factors that make HPT a hard sell: (1) HPT is not part of standard business jargon, (2) organizational executives associate…
Descriptors: Expertise, Problem Solving, Performance Technology, Performance Factors
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Greene, Ronald L. – Physics Teacher, 2006
Recent years have seen widespread adoption of automatic grading of physics homework problems. Although first-generation homework management systems provide feedback and assign scores based only on the answers, problem-solving performance on exams seems to be no worse for students using these systems than for those who receive detailed comments…
Descriptors: Grading, Physics, Homework, Feedback (Response)
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Bedny, Gregory Z.; Harris, Steven Robert – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2005
This article offers an introduction to the central concepts and principles of the Systemic-Structural Theory of Activity (SSTA), an activity-theoretical approach specifically tailored to the analysis and design of human work. In activity theory, cognition is understood both as a process and as a structured system of actions. Building on the…
Descriptors: Human Factors Engineering, Design, Problem Solving, Man Machine Systems
Bantz, David; And Others – 1990
This annotated bibliography is based on a literature search which was commissioned to complement the report on a conference hosted by Dartmouth University (New Hampshire) in October 1988. An introductory essay describes the conference, which brought together 30 educators from a wide variety of institutions for 3 days to reflect on the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation