Automation Challenges of Socio-technical Systems

2 System-centered Specification of Physico–physiological Interactions of Sensory Perception

2.1. Introduction

The resilience capacity of a socio-technical system is an example of multi-domain requirement [LEV 17, VAN 17] for which justification can be found in the role of humans in the control loop having to a priori face with the unexpected in operational situations [GAL 06, BOY 11]. Moreover, the recurring observation of systemic failures a posteriori [BOA 13, BOY 14] raises questions about what enables the tangible togetherness (Chapter 7 of [BOA 08]) when natural – physical and human – and artificial “parts” are related to form a whole. Consequently, there is a consensus about the need to combine a priori the domain of multidisciplinary engineering knowledge, respectively human-centered and technique-centered [RUA 15], in order to satisfy socio-technical requirements in a system project.

Rather than proposing an integrative framework, or even an ontology, of elements of these bodies of multidisciplinary knowledge of these fields (which are, however, bounded by their respective specialist engineering skills), in section 2.2, we present the constitutive elements of a simplex orchestration [BER 09] of the interdisciplinary knowledge¹ in a system project. It is the situation system, and first a certain situation reality itself, which is integrative of the multidisciplinary knowledge assets required to dynamically form the interdisciplinary knowledge which will satisfy, in ...