Team-computer interfaces in complex task environments

Investigating Collaborative Behaviors on Interactive Tabletop Displays in Complex Task Environments

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e572172013-372 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Xiaochen Yuan ◽

Joseph Shum ◽

Kimberly Langer ◽

Mark Hancock ◽

Jonathan Histon

Keyword(s):

Complex Task ◽

Tabletop Displays ◽

Task Environments

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Preference-Based MMI for Complex Task Environments

IFAC Proceedings Volumes ◽

10.1016/s1474-6670(17)40133-9 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 31 (26) ◽

pp. 443-448

Author(s):

Makoto Takahashi ◽

Koutarou Fukui ◽

Masaharu Kitamura

Keyword(s):

Complex Task ◽

Task Environments

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Explaining the Variable Utility of Disjointed Incrementalism: Four Propositions

American Political Science Review ◽

10.2307/1960631 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 74 (2) ◽

pp. 342-353 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Ian Lustick

Keyword(s):

Policy Process ◽

Organization Theory ◽

Organizational Design ◽

Complex Task ◽

Decision Strategies ◽

Political Sphere ◽

Relative Utility ◽

Disjointed Incrementalism ◽

Task Environments

Much of mainstream organization theory has been concerned with the implications for organizational design and policy process of high levels of uncertainty or complexity in task environments. Decentralization, disjointed incrementalist decision strategies, and quasi-market coordinative mechanisms have been advanced as rational responses to the complexity of most problems in the socio-political sphere. This article presents and illustrates four conditions which reduce the relative utility of this approach as a means of coping with uncertainty. The propositions are shown to be implicit in the logic of “muddling through,” and are used to help explain/predict the evolution of relatively centralized and planned organizations in certain types of complex task environments.

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