How a cockpit calculates its speeds and why errors while doing this are so hard to detect

Cognition, Technology and Work

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 217-231

  Henriqson, Eder ^a   van Winsen, Roel ^b   Saurin, Tarcisio Abreu ^c   Dekker, Sidney W A ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aviation; Cognitive systems engineering; Control; Coordination; Interactions; Joint cognitive system; Representations

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL PROCESS; COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; JOINT COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; REPRESENTATIONS;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; SPEED; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TAKEOFF;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 80054110217     PISSN: 14355558     EISSN: 14355566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10111-010-0161-4     Document Type: Article

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