Abstract
Design of tangible interactive systems (TISs) involves understanding and taking into account stability issues. What do we mean by TIS stability? Any time a new artifact or system is designed, we need to question impact of its use in our society and environment. We need to question social stability and environmental stability with respect to technological evolution and consequent emergence of new practices. Stability issues naturally follow maturity issues that were presented and discussed in the previous chapter. They include important concepts such as observability, controllability, redundancy, cognitive stability, cognitive support, resilience, safety, and security of life-critical systems. Let’s first remind old concepts and define new ones.
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I challenge you to find more, and please send me an email gboy@fit.edu
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ALIAS (Addressing the Liability Impact of Automated Systems). Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) themes and projects: http://www.sesarju.eu/innovation-solution/exploratory-research/research-themes-and-projects (retrieved on July 31, 2015).
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Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR European Commission Program) is interested in reducing air traffic congestion, delays, flight cancelations, and charges incurred by the airlines from the air navigation service providers, increasing trajectory efficiency, improving the overall levels of automation, and making all airspace systems more predictable.
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This is domain specific. Sometimes technology is the only relevant part of a TIS. In many cases, a new technology has a strong impact on the organization it is used. It also may also change jobs and then have a strong impact on people.
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Boy, G.A. (2016). Stability. In: Tangible Interactive Systems. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30270-6_8
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