Decision support or support for situated choice: Lessons for system design from effective manual systems

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 510-528

  Lederman, Reeva ^a   Johnston, Robert B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

decision support systems; flight progress strips; Kanban; manual systems; routine activity; situated choice support systems

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL; HOSPITALS;

ACTION ENVIRONMENT; ALLOCATION SYSTEMS; ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS); FLIGHT PROGRESS STRIPS; INFORMATION RESOURCE; KANBAN; SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 79961148680     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2011.11     Document Type: Article

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