Kenneth D. Eason
Loughborough University
11 Papers
63 Citations
Kenneth D. Eason is an academic researcher from Loughborough University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Crowds & Collaborative learning. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 11 publications.
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Papers
User-centred design: for users or by users?
TL;DR: The paper proposes, for example, that ‘ design by users’ is the appropriate strategy when significant value judgements have to be taken in a local or bespoke design setting and a ‘design for users” approach is appropriate for the design of generic products.
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Factors influencing experience in crowds - The participant perspective.
TL;DR: It was found that important aspects affecting participant experience are often not considered systematically in the planning of events or crowd situations, and human factors aspects of crowds are being overlooked, with the experiences of participants often poor.
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Preparing the ground for the 'paperless hospital': a case study of medical records management in a UK outpatient services department.
TL;DR: The findings provide further evidence that there is a need to treat the implementation of EPRs not simply as an exercise in technical system delivery, but as a larger process of sociotechnical systems change.
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Dialogue design implications of task allocation between man and computer
TL;DR: One of man's essential roles in the operation of man-computer systems is to cope adaptively with the openness in the system and that one of the problems of current systems is that they infer a closed model of the task that may inhibit the user in his efforts to provide an adaptive contribution.
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‘1966 and all that’: Trends and developments in UK ergonomics during the 1960s
TL;DR: The 1960s represents a key decade in the expansion of ergonomics within the UK and trends and developments that emerged out of the 1960s are reviewed and compared with ergonomic research and practice today.