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Implementing Configurable Information Systems: A Combined Social Science and Cognitive Science Approach

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Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind (CT 2001)

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This paper outlines an interdisciplinary approach to tackling the issues of integrating medical information systems into existing health-care environments where high dependability is a significant requirement. It focuses on the knowledge of system users (domain practitioners) and designers, and the potential use of diagrammatic representations of that knowledge during the implementation process in order to support communication between the two groups, and to serve as tools in assisting system reconfiguration to user requirements during implementation.

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  1. IRC for Dependability of Computer Based Systems (DIRC), University of Edinburgh, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW, UK

    Corin Gurr & Gillian Hardstone

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  1. Corin Gurr
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  1. The Empirical Modeling Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Meurig Beynon

  2. Adaptive Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield Herts, AL10 9AB, UK

    Chrystopher L. Nehaniv  & Kerstin Dautenhahn  & 

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Gurr, C., Hardstone, G. (2001). Implementing Configurable Information Systems: A Combined Social Science and Cognitive Science Approach. In: Beynon, M., Nehaniv, C.L., Dautenhahn, K. (eds) Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind. CT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2117. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44617-6_35

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