Overview
The Cognitive and Organisational Systems Engineering (COSE) project is a new NICTA project, starting mid-2008.
The goal of the COSE project is to develop better techniques and tools for evaluating the integration between people, the ICT systems that they use, and the environments in which they work.
COSE’s techniques and tools will be used by systems developers and systems integration consultants to envision and evaluate human-system interaction much earlier in the system development cycle than is now possible.
Subprojects
Each of COSE’s three sub-projects focuses on a specific human-system integration problem, but all will contribute to COSE’s emerging architecture and ontology.
Together, the sub-projects test whether COSE effectively represents human-system integration content in two disparate domains—healthcare and air traffic management.
Prospective Evaluation of ICT (PICTE)
PICTE establishes a foundation for COSE by identifying ways to evaluate ICT very early in the development cycle. PICTE will take Queensland Health’s eHealth system development as a case study. PICTE will contribute to COSE by building effective concepts and ontologies for representing factors affecting human-system integration at enterprise, department, and work team levels.
Ecological Human Operator Modeling (ECHOMOD)
ECHOMOD provides concepts and ontologies for representing the cognitive demands of individual work in real time at the work interface. In partnership with Airservices Australia, ECHOMOD will be developed in the air traffic management domain where the real-time demands on controllers pose a modelling challenge. ECHOMOD lets us extend COSE’s expressive power to the work interface.
Communications Lexi-vision (COMLEX)
COMLEX extends the capabilities of text mining tools (we plan to use Leximancer™) to the analysis of communications in healthcare, again in partnership with Queensland Health. COMLEX lets us validate COSE’s predictions about the impact of such a system on teamwork in the healthcare environment. COMLEX will also help to ensure that COSE provides effective concepts and ontologies for representing work team activity.
For further information, contact COSE Research Leader Prof Penelope Sanderson on psanderson@nicta.com.au.
Personnel
Contributed personnel
Professor Penelope Sanderson (COSE Research Leader, and PICTE leader)
A/Professor Andrew Neal (ECHOMOD leader)
A/Prof Marcus Watson (COMLEX leader)
Dr Andrew Smith
Professor Mike Humphreys
Professor Roger Remington
Professor Cindy Gallois
Dr Shayne Loft
Dr Jason Tangen
Researchers
Martijn Mooij
Tania Xiao