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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEM"”.
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Family caregiving, home medical devices, and the sociotechnical system: Bringing the biomedical sciences into the bioethics discourse
… cost-effective resource for the medical system. More recently, complex devices have made it possible to sustain patient's lives at home in more acute situations for longer periods of time. The arguments supporting the use of home care devices have been predicated on improving patients' …
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Risk, Oil Spills, and Governance: Can Organizational Theory Help Us Understand the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
… organizations. The 2010 spill took place in a sociotechnical system that can be described as complex and tightly coupled, and therefore prone to normal accidents. However, the entities in charge of managing this technology lacked the organizational capacity to safely operate within this …
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Sex, Power, and Technology: A Relational Engineering Ethos as Feminist Utopia
… relations between humans and non-humans in a sociotechnical system. I investigate how relational engineering might be operationalized in the US tech sector by first reviewing the sector's current ideological landscape and then investigating two case studies. One case study looks at the norms …
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A New Framework: The Sociotechnical Approach to Nation Branding
… and collaboration of technical and social systems to assess if the principles of Sociotechnical Systems Theory advance the theory and practice of nation branding. Following a mixed-method and mixed-model approach, using interviews, questionnaire and documentary evidence the aim of this work …
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How cities learn : urban experimentation for creating and governing technology
… An urban experiment is an intervention with a sociotechnical system in the public realm. It is explicitly bounded in space and time, it involves groups of actors from different sectors, and its goal is to evaluate the intervention. I elaborate civic value as an evaluative lens, and turn to …
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An Artificial Intelligence Based Approach to Automate Document Processing in Business Area
… This thesis considers document processing from a sociotechnical system perspective and leverages a four-step system analysis approach to identify the critical components. This research also proposes a machine learning model using Support Vector Machine (SVM) as the classifier and Word2vec …
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Toward Achieving the Energy Transition Through Corporate-University Partnerships
… is increasingly moving toward a global energy system that is lower carbon, transitioning from predominantly hydrocarbons to including more renewable and sustainable energy sources. The amount of multidimensional change – spanning culture, technology, education, infrastructure, and policy – …
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Modelling methodology for assessing the impact of new technology on complex sociotechnical systems
Developing complex sociotechnical systems often involves integrating new technology into existing systems by applying systems engineering processes. This requires an understanding of the problem space and the possible impact of the new technology. Systems engineering uses modelling to explore the …
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Utilizing Enterprise Architecture Frameworks to Enable Desired Emergent Behaviors of an Enterprise Transformation
… of organizational theory, managerial science, systems engineering, and systems architecture. An enterprise system is a complex sociotechnical system that must contend with a rapidly changing external context, evolving goals for success, and emergent behavior that is highly complex to predict. …
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Driving Optimization Centered Upstream Petroleum Operations in the Denver-Julesburg Basin
… In this thesis, Operations Research and Systems Thinking are coupled to suggest practical optimization techniques for which upstream petroleum producers may gain additional revenue streams to fund a lower carbon future. Current challenges for these firms include global competition to …
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Cybersecurity for the unbanked: usable security heuristics for mobile financial services
… the nature of usable security in the MFS sociotechnical system and how to address it, from the perspective of stakeholders in the ecosystem, has not been thoroughly examined. This PhD thesis provides both theoretical and practical contributions by providing an understanding of …
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The Library and the Internet: An Interpretive Study of the State Library of Victoria
… technologies. Employing the notion of an open system that is, one which is undergoing constant change, has indeterminate boundaries and means of control, it examines from a sociotechnical viewpoint, informed by Actor-Network Theory, the way the mutual interaction between technologies, society …
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Human resource management in project portfolios : architecting an allocation process
… frame the human resource allocation problem as a sociotechnical system instead. As such, nine critical system design decisions were identified and combined to yield distinct process architectures. Next, these architectures were scored and evaluated against performance metrics levied by the system …
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How Does Robotic Surgery Influence Communication, Leadership, and Team Outcomes? A Multimethod Examination.
… and perceived effectiveness. As robotic surgical systems and practices continue to inevitably advance in the coming years, developers should be keenly aware of the interdependencies between all aspects of the sociotechnical system including the providers and recipients of care, the environment and …
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An Identity-Oriented Systems Engineering Framework for Complex Sociotechnical Systems: A case study of Zero Robotics
… of society including socioeconomic, health system, political powers, education opportunities, etc. Technology however often entrenches or sustains the hierarchies and further strengthens these social inequalities. While there are many frameworks for studying complex systems, a framework with …
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System theoretic safety analysis of the Sewol-Ho ferry accident in South Korea
… were limited in revealing the most important systemic causal mechanisms leading to a more complete understanding of the reason why the accident occurred, and therefore, appear to be inadequate in designing and obtaining sociotechnical system level safety because they did not apply system …
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Maintaining the Atom: U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Life and the 80-Year Maintenance Regulation Regime
Large, ever more complex, technological systems surround us and provide products and services that both construct and define much of what we consider as modern society. Our societal bargain is the trade-off between the benefits of our technologies and our constant vigilance over the safe workings …
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A Cross-Cultural Examination: Effects of Reward Systems and Cultures on Low Severity Risk-Taking Behavior in Construction
… objective was to identify the effects of reward systems (rewards and a penalty) on risk-taking behavior and performance (quality and time) of construction workers from different cultures (American, Asian, and Latin American cultures). This research used the sociotechnical system as the …
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Self-Regulating Teamwork Behaviors in Low-Volume & High-Complexity Production
… manufacturing, born out of the Toyota Production System (TPS), has become the dominant improvement method sought to meet this need. Although well established in high-volume production settings, the application of lean production methods in low-volume and high-complexity (LVHC) manufacturing …
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A systems perspective on the future of the automotive industry
This thesis provides a systems perspective on the trends anticipated in the global automotive industry and their impact on the industry value chain. The global trends which are the emergent properties of the automotive industry, their effects, and the corresponding challenges that they bring to the …
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