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Design for FlexibilityA Framework for Flexibility Analysis in Sociotechnical Systems

Design for Flexibility: A Framework for Flexibility Analysis in Sociotechnical Systems [We have entered a digital society that offers us more freedom but also enslaves us to a new sociotechnical environment for which we have not yet assumed all shortcomings. The characteristics of digital technology are essentially a function of the sociotechnical maturity of technologies that support it and its integration. This chapter emphasizes sociotechnical maturity and promotes the shift from rigid automation to flexible autonomy, which cannot be studied and developed without considering systems as a representation that articulates concepts such as structures, functions, contexts and resources. This representation is embedded into the so-called “context-resource orthogonality” framework where resources require to be explicitly formalized as objects or subjects, and contexts deal with various kinds of situations embedded into a contextual model of situation awareness. These concepts are illustrated by an example of a community-based health system.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Design for FlexibilityA Framework for Flexibility Analysis in Sociotechnical Systems

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-76390-9
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7 –19
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10.1007/978-3-030-76391-6_2
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[We have entered a digital society that offers us more freedom but also enslaves us to a new sociotechnical environment for which we have not yet assumed all shortcomings. The characteristics of digital technology are essentially a function of the sociotechnical maturity of technologies that support it and its integration. This chapter emphasizes sociotechnical maturity and promotes the shift from rigid automation to flexible autonomy, which cannot be studied and developed without considering systems as a representation that articulates concepts such as structures, functions, contexts and resources. This representation is embedded into the so-called “context-resource orthogonality” framework where resources require to be explicitly formalized as objects or subjects, and contexts deal with various kinds of situations embedded into a contextual model of situation awareness. These concepts are illustrated by an example of a community-based health system.]

Published: Jun 20, 2021

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