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A number of PhD studentships and Post Doctoral positions are available in
the EC funded Research Training Network ADVISES - Analysis Design and
Validation of Interactive Safety-critical and Error-tolerant Systems.
See http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/advises/vacancies/ for details about the
vacancies.
Short background for ADVISES
The engineering of interactive, safety-critical systems is an
inter-disciplinary endeavour. This creates a number of practical problems
for many different industries. Organisations must integrate techniques and
methods for many different disciplines. These range from hardware
engineering through to human factors and management. The difficulty of
achieving such integration stems in part from a mutual ignorance about these
complementary disciplines, in part from a lack of methods in certain areas
and in part from a failure to effectively integrate existing methods and
techniques. We believe that the only way to solve such a problem is to have
a tight integration of research contributions from all the disciplines
relevant to the problem, namely:
accident and incident analysis; human-error analysis; human-computer
interaction; human factors; interactive systems engineering; safety-critical
systems engineering; safety management systems and organisational learning;
workplace and observational studies.
The partners in this research and training network have recognised expertise
in each of the areas mentioned above. Our main objective is to provide a
multi-disciplinary research training that can combat the impact of human
error during the design, operation and management of safety-critical,
interactive systems. Additionally, the exchange of knowledge, practices,
tools and experience between adjacent (but still too distinct) disciplines
can lead to the efficient integration of complementary research methods.
Ultimately, it is hoped that this will contribute to a new and more unified
research agenda for the development of safety-critical, interactive systems.
For more information contact:
Prof. Chris Johnson, <http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson>
Dept. of Computing Science, Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland.
Tel: +44 141 330 6053, Fax: +44 141 330 4913, [log in to unmask]
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