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Course description

Quota of 75 students. Enrolment will close once quota is reached. This course conveys fundamental principles of human factors psychology, which is the science and practice of understanding the fit between people and the systems they work with. Course is constructed around site visits to three kinds of safety-critical workplaces: transportation (air traffic or roadway control rooms), health (critical care or emergency departments), energy (power generation or transmission control rooms), and emergency response (crisis or rescue command centres). We study challenges of human-system fit in such workplaces from the perceptual, cognitive, social, and organisational points of view.

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