Recent publications

The Institute's Aims

*to improve the efficiency of organisations without damaging the quality of their members' lives;   

*to improve the quality of working life without damaging efficiency;  

*where possible, to improve both simultaneously.

Ken Eason - Publications

 

About Socio-Technical Systems

‘Towards an Integrated Digital Library: Exploration of User Responses to a 'Joined-Up' Service’ Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006 Vol 3232, pp 452 - 463  (with Susan Harker, Ann Apps and Ross MacIntyre)

 

‘Sociotechnical systems theory in the 21st century: Another half-filled glass? In Graves D. (ed) ‘Sense in social science: A collection of essays in honour of Dr. Lisl Klein 2008 123-134

 

‘Socio-technical theory and work systems in the information age’ In Whitworth B. and de Moor A. (eds)  ‘Handbook of research on socio-technical design and social networking systems’ Information Science Reference, Hershey New York 2009 65-77  (with Jose Abdeknour-Nocera)

 

 ‘When we first started interacting with computers…’ ‘Ergonomics at 60’ January 2009, The Ergonomics Society, 10

 

 ‘Before the Internet: The Relevance of Socio-technical Systems Theory to Emerging Forms of Virtual Organisation’ International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development, April-June 2009  1, 2 23-32

 

‘1966 and All That: Trends and Developments 1956-1974 within UK Ergonomics’ Ergonomics 2009 52(11) 1323-1341 (with Patrick Waterson)

 

About Health Informatics

‘Exploiting the potential of the NPfIT; British Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information Management 2005  22.7 14-16


 ‘Local sociotechnical system development in the NHS National Programme for Information Technology’ Journal of Information Technology 2007 22 257-264

 

 ‘The National Health Service National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT): A Socio-technical Systems Perspective’ In Currie W. and Finnegan D. (eds) ‘Integrating healthcare with information and communications technology’ Radcliffe, Oxford 2009 183-204

 

 ‘Information systems in health care – breaking down barriers or creating more?’  To be published in ‘Dilemmas in Human Services 2010’ Ed. J. Radcliffe and M. Dent. 2010