Upcoming Events
Upcoming conferences Date Event Association / Community Location Link 9-12 March, 2026 29th Annual Applied Ergonomics Conference Applied Ergonomics Society Arlington, TX https://www.iise.org/aec/ 22-25 March, […]
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Commentary on the Historical Contributions of Dr. Richard Cook’s Realized Predictions of the Impact of New Technology on Complex Cognitive Work as Viewed Through the Lens of the Theory of Graceful Extensibility
10th Symposium Proceedings (preliminary version)
Below you can find a preliminary version of the RE10 Symposium Proceedings for REA members and RE10 participants. The final version of the proceedings will […]
REA Newsletter 14
List of upcoming events & conferences
Conference Name Related Association / Community When Where Link International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) […]
Always be helpful, cooperate, and never do SWAG
by Emily S. Patterson, Ph.D. My time as a Research Scientist at the Veteran’s Health Administration Midwest Getting at Patient Safety Center was never supposed […]
REA 10th Symposium: Call for contributions
Extended Deadline and other information Resilience at frontiers, frontiers of resilience The 10th Resilience Engineering Symposium’s philosophy is to mix and bridge scientific contributions, practitioners’ […]
The Radical
By Christopher Nemeth Richard Irwin Cook was a software engineer, anesthesiologist, researcher, and thinker. None of those terms captures his character as fully as “radical.” […]
Avoiding human error in the hospital: Mission possible?!
By Yoel Donchin I met Professor Daniel Gopher just before the Passover Seder, which took place at my brother’s home in Urbana, Illinois. I asked […]
Cognitive artefacts as a window into “ordinary” work
By Yuval Bitan, Ph.D. The Cognitive Technology Laboratory (CtL) was a unique research lab. Richard Cook assembled a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and human factors […]