Back to the disagreement between Terry and me, but just for a moment.
I agree with Ken: Terry tells it as it should be. I like to think I
tell it as it really is. I really want to agree with Terry. His heart
is in the right place. Alas, that is not how I see the world.
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So here is my voice from authority. All of you are completely free to disagree.
I was asked to give a keynote address to the members of the National
Research Council's (NRC) Board on Human-System Integration (BOHSI)
last year on the 30th year anniversary of HSI. The NRC is the
research arm of the three official technologyNational Academies:
Academy of Science (NAS), Engineering (NAE) and the Institute of
Medicine (IOM: when IOM was started, there was an intense political
fight and the NAS and NAE refused to let it be called an "Academy."
Scientists and Engineers can be very petty.)
When HSI (sorry for all the acronyms) was started it was Human
Factors, but after many years of no progress in the Academies, they
renamed themselves Human-System Integration as a better description of
what they did. See
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bohsi/index.html
anyway, here is my talk.
http://jnd.org/dn.mss/why_human_systems_integration_fails_and_why_the_university_is_the_problem.html
Why Human Systems Integration Fails (And Why the University Is the Problem)
How was it received? Far too well. As a result, I've been asked to
serve on a lot more NAE/NRC committees.
Caveat: It takes a long time to get into NAE or even the NRC
committee. You have to have had a successful career. So perhaps the
committee is made up of all those old folks who are not keeping up
with modern times, like me. Form your own opinion.
Don
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