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The comparison between system functionalities and actual goal-oriented human work activity discloses that present systems are incapable of coping with cognitive task requirements. The level of cognitive task requirements for “better” systems is the understanding of the specifics of human problem solving, physical, cognitive, and social interactions with computers, human goals, development, learning, etc. The key to this level is human goal-oriented work activity per se …
Regrettably, research literature and engineering are primarily concerned with functionality in systems and their requirements … whilst they forget that systems must serve man. The emphasis is on man and not impersonal users or stick figures, which have no individual intention, emotion, thought, development, skills ...
Obviously, ignorance of cognitive task requirements results in inaccurate and incomplete requirements. Inaccurate and incomplete requirements affect requirements negotiation, decision-making, and design and as such, are one major cause for ill-structured systems that commences at the threshold of software engineering (SE) i.e., RE [requirements engineering]
Regrettably, research literature and engineering are primarily concerned with functionality in systems and their requirements … whilst they forget that systems must serve man. The emphasis is on man and not impersonal users or stick figures, which have no individual intention, emotion, thought, development, skills ...
Obviously, ignorance of cognitive task requirements results in inaccurate and incomplete requirements. Inaccurate and incomplete requirements affect requirements negotiation, decision-making, and design and as such, are one major cause for ill-structured systems that commences at the threshold of software engineering (SE) i.e., RE [requirements engineering]
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Welcome to my services and online portfolio. I am empathetic about human work activity and passionate about human-centered design in organizational practice (video with practical examples) and research and am delighted in offering my services to you. My engineering approach provides you with a preliminary insight into my creative approach and engineering techniques (video with practical examples).
Physical or artificial artefacts that satisfy, are adaptive, and responsive to human mediation during goal-oriented human work activity in time and space motivate their consumers – employees and clients alike. Importantly, motivated consumers yield higher productivity, produce a more reliable and faster result, and constitute greater corporate revenues. It is my ambition to develop, research, and design artefacts that mediate the integrative human goal-directed activity system, which unifies human cognition, behaviour, and motivation, connects humans with the world of objects, and with other humans.
Foci of my practical application and research (list of publications) are the understanding of human task complexity (gallery with practical examples) during man-machine interaction, task optimisation, human, and organizational benefits alike. Task complexity is a critical characteristic of human work activity and interconnects with usability of equipment (gallery with practical examples), the dynamics of learning, development, skill acquisition, safety, and evaluation of cognitive efforts. My special focus is on applied Activity Theory using systemic-structural principles within the social, cultural, and historical sphere of goal-oriented human work activity. These build the base for software requirements, software design (gallery with practical examples), and data modelling (theory & practical examples).
Physical or artificial artefacts that satisfy, are adaptive, and responsive to human mediation during goal-oriented human work activity in time and space motivate their consumers – employees and clients alike. Importantly, motivated consumers yield higher productivity, produce a more reliable and faster result, and constitute greater corporate revenues. It is my ambition to develop, research, and design artefacts that mediate the integrative human goal-directed activity system, which unifies human cognition, behaviour, and motivation, connects humans with the world of objects, and with other humans.
Foci of my practical application and research (list of publications) are the understanding of human task complexity (gallery with practical examples) during man-machine interaction, task optimisation, human, and organizational benefits alike. Task complexity is a critical characteristic of human work activity and interconnects with usability of equipment (gallery with practical examples), the dynamics of learning, development, skill acquisition, safety, and evaluation of cognitive efforts. My special focus is on applied Activity Theory using systemic-structural principles within the social, cultural, and historical sphere of goal-oriented human work activity. These build the base for software requirements, software design (gallery with practical examples), and data modelling (theory & practical examples).
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