Joint Cognitive Systems

74 Joint Cognitive Systems

hypothesize that the telemetry signature must hav e been du e to a failed transducer

or pressure sensor. In this case, the intervention that w as in tended to be therapeutic

also became a d iagnostic intervention because it provided practitioners with more

evidence about possible explan ations (note that actions taken only for diagnostic

value, as interventions, may still have risks relative to the monitored process; e.g.,

check ing a difficult to access area of a process may introduce new problems, or in

cardiovascular anesthesiology, different actions to gain information pose varying

risks of other injuries to the patient).

Revision

The time course of disturbances and interventions produces a series of changes

in the data ...