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Chapter 9
CSE and Its Applications
This chapter provides a brief overview of the actual and potential
applications of CSE. These include work and task design, control
room design, decision support, etc. The problems are, of course, well
known, since they stem from the practical problems of working life
and of human-machine systems. CSE provides a consistent approach
to address these problems, as well as a set of methods with a common
conceptual basis.
WHAT SHOULD CSE BE ABOUT?
The preceding chapters of this book have identified the main practical and
research issues of CSE and introduced the basic concepts, theories, and
models. This last chapter will provide a brief overview of