mjb@hound.UUCP (M.BURNS) (11/07/88)
The Metropolitan Chapter of the Human Factors Society Annual Symposium will be held November 15, 1988 in New York, NY. The theme is "The Role of Failure in the Design Process." The Keynote Speaker is Henry Petroski, Director of Graduate Studies in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Duke University and author of "To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design." Panelists include: Hugh Bowen - Human Factors Consultants, Inc. Betty Goldsberry - Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Paul Green - University of Michigan John Thomas - NYNEX Science and Technology The symposium will run from 9:00AM-4:30PM, on Novemeber 15, 1988. It will be held at: New York Telephone Headquarters Building 1095 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY While registration at the door is available, advance registration is recommended. For further information and a registration packet, contact: Walter Hawkins Room 2D-612 AT&T Bell Laboratories Crawfords Corner Road Holmdel, NJ 07733 (201) 949-7910 E-Mail: attunix!hound!walter1
norman@sdics.ucsd.EDU (Donald A Norman-UCSD Cog Sci Dept) (11/09/88)
In article <2734@hound.UUCP> mjb@hound.UUCP (M.BURNS) writes:
The Metropolitan Chapter of the Human Factors Society Annual Symposium
will be held November 15, 1988 in New York, NY. The theme is "The
Role of Failure in the Design Process." The Keynote Speaker is Henry
Petroski, Director of Graduate Studies in Civil & Environmental
Engineering at Duke University and author of "To Engineer Is Human:
The Role of Failure in Successful Design."
This announcement is clearly not relevant to most of us outside of the
New York area, but I want to take the opportunity to recommend that
Petroski's book be required reading of everyone in this cognitive
engineering business (especially those who say such things as, "human
computer interface is such a mushy, soft field: why can't it be as
precise and computationally driven as, say, bridge building").
The reference is:
Petroski, Henry. (1985) To engineer is human: The role of failure in
successful design. New York: St. Martin's Press.
don norman
Donald A. Norman [ danorman@ucsd.edu BITNET: danorman@ucsd ]
Department of Cognitive Science C-015
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093 USA
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