DIRC - Research Summaries



	Research Summaries




	Themes Results

The research results of DIRC are, of course, described in detail in peer-reviewed papers presented at conferences and published in journals. The aim of this page is to provide summaries of these results along with, where appropriate, links to the papers themselves and related web sites. The research summaries reflect work at different stages of maturity - some are completed work with extensive publications, others are exploratory studies and yet others are work that is still continuing.

The research themes include references to relevant research summaries.

The functioning of socio-technical systems
Patterns of cooperative interaction	Human-machine diversity: The mammography case study
Trust in Technology: A Socio-Technical Perspective (Book)	Electronic patient records
Overview of healthcare research in DIRC	Dynamic coalitions
Risk in financial systems	Dependability as ordinary action
High reliability organisations	Dependability and systems failure
system development processes
Determining a specification from context	Diagrammatic representations and dependability
Deployment "war stories"	Configuration modelling and analysis
Co-realisation: Design in use	Role of style in dependable interactive systems
Open source software	Massive diversity in testing
Psychology and software development	Diversity for SQL servers
Empirical research on spontaneous diversity in programs	Probabilistic models of fault tolerant software development/use
Structuring evolution	Cognitive conflicts
Vulnerability analysis
Extending ethnography
Development of ethnographic methods	Ethnography and design
Scavenger: processing ethnographic data	Process modelling in healthcare
Structuring ethnographic data	Situation modelling
Cultural probes	Classification
Standardisation and organisational knowledge
Timing in socio-technical systems
Timing and collaboration in the neonatal intensive care unit	Using Cognitive Task Analysis in a Medical Setting
Time bands	Time and context modelling
Time design: The analysis of subjective time	Modelling time/accuracy trade-offs
Timing Analysis of real-time systems	Knowing when to act
Dependability assessment and decision making
Diverse dependability cases	Analysing structure in dependability cases
Confidence in dependability cases	Reuse in dependability cases
Issue Importance in Human Reliability Design
security and privacy
Human security	Redundancy and diversity in security
E-voting: A question of trust
Dependable assistive technology
Net neighbours	Managing risk in the homes of the frail elderly
Socially dependable design	Evaluation of electronic assistive technology
Cognitive support for dementia	Domestic dependability model
Designing software for elders
dependable service-centric grid computing
Modelling workflow behaviour	Service composition
Service negotiation	A generic mechanism for service fault tolerance
QoS ontology for service-based systems


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