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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

David Woods is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States, focusing on research within the domain of Decision Sciences. Their scholarly output includes work in several subfields, notably Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management, Social Psychology, Control and Systems Engineering, and Emergency Medical Services.

Their research centers around a range of topics including Complex Systems and Decision Making, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Human-Automation Interaction and Safety, Occupational Health and Safety Research, Disaster Response and Management, Disaster Management and Resilience, and Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David Woods include:

  • "Resilient Flight Control: An Architecture for Human Supervision of Automation," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • "Rethinking preparedness planning in disaster emergency care: lessons from a beyond-surge-capacity event," 2021, World Journal of Emergency Surgery
  • "Progress toward Resilient Infrastructures: Are we falling behind the pace of events and changing threats?", 2021, Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy
  • "Revealing the critical role of human performance in software," 2020, Communications of the ACM
  • "Uncovering the Value of a Historical Paper-Based Collaborative Artifact: The Nursing Unit's Kardex System," 2020, Frontiers in Digital Health

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sidney Dekker
  • Michael F. Rayo
  • David Alderson
  • Sheuwen Chuang
  • Emily S. Patterson

Publication venues that have featured David Woods' work with notable frequency include:

  • Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
  • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy

David Woods has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) since 2019.

Best Publications

  • Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts

    Erik Hollnagel;David D. Woods;Nancy Leveson

  • Joint Cognitive Systems: Foundations of Cognitive Systems Engineering

    Erik Hollnagel;David D. Woods

  • How in the world did we ever get into that mode? Mode error and awareness in supervisory control

    Nadine B. Sarter;David D. Woods

  • Situation Awareness: A Critical But Ill-Defined Phenomenon

    Nadine B. Sarter;David D. Woods

  • Cognitive systems engineering: new wine in new bottles

    Erik Hollnagel;David D. Woods

  • Four concepts for resilience and the implications for the future of resilience engineering

    David D. Woods

  • Ten challenges for making automation a "team player" in joint human-agent activity

    G. Klien;D.D. Woods;J.M. Bradshaw;R.R. Hoffman

  • Joint Cognitive Systems: Patterns in Cognitive Systems Engineering

    David D. Woods;Erik Hollnagel

  • Essential Characteristics of Resilience

    David D. Woods

  • Behind Human Error: Cognitive Systems, Computers and Hindsight

    David D. Woods;Leila J. Johannesen;Richard I. Cook;Nadine B. Sarter

  • Behind Human Error

    David D. Woods;Sidney Dekker;Richard Cook;Leila Johannesen

  • Operating at the Sharp End: The Complexity of Human Error

    Richard I. Cook;David D. Woods

  • Visual momentum: a concept to improve the cognitive coupling of person and computer

    David D. Woods

  • 1. How to make automated systems team players

    Klaus Christoffersen;David D Woods

  • Coping with complexity: the psychology of human behaviour in complex systems

    David D. Woods

  • Common Ground and Coordination in Joint Activity

    Gary Klein;Paul J. Feltovich;Jeffrey M. Bradshaw;David D. Woods

  • MABA-MABA or Abracadabra? Progress on Human–Automation Co-ordination

    Sidney W. A. Dekker;David D. Woods

  • Pilot Interaction With Cockpit Automation II: An Experimental Study of Pilots’ Model and Awareness of the Flight Management System

    Nadine B. Sarter;David D. Woods

  • Can We Ever Escape from Data Overload? A Cognitive Systems Diagnosis

    David D. Woods;Emily S. Patterson;Emilie M. Roth

  • Cognitive Systems Engineering

    Erik Hollnagel;David D Woods

  • Joint Cognitive Systems

    David D. Woods;Erik Hollnagel

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Hollnagel
Erik Hollnagel Jönköping University
Emilie M. Roth
Emilie M. Roth Roth Cognitive Engineering
Sidney Dekker
Sidney Dekker Griffith University
Nadine Sarter
Nadine Sarter University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gary Klein
Gary Klein MacroCognition LLC
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Peter A. Hancock
Peter A. Hancock University of Central Florida
James W. Davis
James W. Davis The Ohio State University
Robert R. Hoffman
Robert R. Hoffman Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Paul J. Feltovich
Paul J. Feltovich Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

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