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Search results for "control" (9)
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The role of private communication in accidents
The two accidents we analyse...
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Analysing accidents : when an air traffic controller chats with a friend
On the 8th of...
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Analysing accidents : When a train engineer sends 57 texts on duty
On September the 12...
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The democratisation of intimacy
Workplace, school, battlefield, foreign country, were until recently all settings in which people were removed for short or long periods of time from their closest ties, family or friends. Clocking in, meant leaving behind the family and ...
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15$ fine to students using their cellphone in school
No calls, no texting, no surfing the Web. If they slip up and are caught, they better be prepared to pay the price: confiscation of their cell phone until they pay a $15 fine. After the second offense, their parent must come in to pay the $15. School...
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The Author
Stefana Broadbent ...
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The origin of the work/home divide
For the last 150 years we can say that the relationship between work and home has been essentially oppositional : while a few professions allowed a partial integration of the two, most workers had to keep them well separated. The most wid...
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Flight Planning : a collaborative task between operators and machines
As many activities which involve man machine interaction, Flight Planning involves the collaboration between a user and a system in the retrieval, analysis and computation of data to reach a complex solution. We propose to look at Flight planning as a sys...
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Wasting time
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