Beschreibung:
How do you achieve a jointly optimised blend of socio and technical and create the kind of agility and self-synchronisation that modern forms of command and control promise? The answer put forward here is to re-visit sociotechnical systems theory. In doing so, the problems of 21st century command and control can be approached from an alternative, multi-disciplinary and above all human-centred perspective.
Contents: Introduction; Reconsidering the network in NEC; Some effects of certain communications patterns on group performance; Complexity and human factors; Dimensions of live-NEC; The human in complex dynamic systems; Beyond NEC; The design of everyday networked interoperable things; Conclusions; References; Bibliography; Index.