Patterns in How People Think and Work – Importance of Patterns Discovery for Understanding Complex Adaptive Systems

Thursday, 25 March 2021 - 16:00 - Thursday, 25 March 2021 - 17:00 (Brussels)

Patterns in How People Think and Work – Importance of Patterns Discovery for Understanding Complex Adaptive Systems

Overview

This webinar describes:

- What is a pattern

- How people think in patterns, especially when it comes to disruptions and recovery

- How visual patterns aid thinking

- How engineering has long used visual patterns to bridge the gap between general principles and highly variable specific situations.

Patterns in How People Think and Work - Importance of Patterns Discovery for Understanding Complex Adaptive Systems

Speaker(s)

Prof. David Woods

(Ph.D., Purdue, Cognitive Psychology, 1979) is Full Professor in Integrated Systems Engineering at the Ohio State University

Prof. David Woods has developed and advanced the foundations and practice of Cognitive Systems Engineering since its origins in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident in nuclear power. This field combines concepts and techniques from cognitive psychology, computer science, and social sciences to study how people cope with complexity. His studies have focused on human systems in time pressured situations such as critical care medicine, aviation, space missions, intelligence analysis, and crisis management.

Patterns in How People Think and Work – Importance of Patterns Discovery for Understanding Complex Adaptive Systems