Distributed Decision Making Report of a Workshop (1990) / Chapter Skim
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Part of this problem is the tension between the need to control the individuals involved and the need to let Hem respond to the demands of their own immediate situations; part is the difficulty of translating overall objectives into terms that will be meaningful in the diverse concrete situations encountered throughout the organization; and part is the challenge of creating incentive systems that will properly motivate personnel. Recent changes in technology have considerably complicated these tasks.
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Examples include creating effective workstations, developing communications protocols, selecting and training operators, designing displays to reveal the current status of an industrial facility, and evaluating the human side of system performance. The Committee on Human Factors has produced reports on topics as diverse as aircraft simulators, simulator sickness, multicolor displays, mental models, the safety of nuclear power plants, and computer-aided design of helicopter pilot workstations.
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