The Ergonomics of Socio-Technical Systems and Reflective Practice
At a glance
- Project leader : Prof. Dr. Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow
- Project team : , Dr. Alice Delorme Benites, Dr. Martin Kappus, Morgan Kavanagh, Belinda Keusch, Romina Schaub-Torsello, Martin Schuler
- Project budget : CHF 175'000
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : Federal government (Projektgebundene Beiträge / P-8 Digital Skills)
- Contact person : Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow
Description
With increasing digitisation, purposeful reflection about the potential influence of current and foreseeable developments in socio-technical systems on cognition, meaning making and decision making in education and professional life has become ever more important. In the area of tertiary education, new technology and applications are often introduced with too little consideration of the needs and objectives of the intended users. Findings from translation and writing process research indicate that quick and easy solutions that are found through the ready and apparently ergonomic access to digital information can actually impair judgment and block emergent thinking. This project develops and tests digital, individualised didactic approaches that focus on reflective practice in order to mitigate limitations imposed by more machine-oriented social-technical systems. The findings are expected to be generalisable to other disciplines and contexts.
Publications
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Kavanagh, Morgan; Delorme Benites, Alice; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Massey, Gary; Schaub-Torsello, Romina,
2020.
Language and human factors : growing digital together.
In:
Applied linguistics in the digital age : conference of the Swiss association for applied linguistics, Neuchâtel, 12-14 February 2020.