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Risk and Cognition [electronic resource] / edited by Jean-Marc Mercantini, Colette Faucher.

Contributor(s): Mercantini, Jean-Marc [editor.] | Faucher, Colette [editor.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Intelligent Systems Reference Library: 80Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015Description: XI, 247 p. 43 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783662457047.Subject(s): Engineering | Artificial intelligence | Computational intelligence | Cognitive psychology | Engineering | Computational Intelligence | Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) | Cognitive PsychologyAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 006.3 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction -- The Role of Risk Perception and Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Regulating Genetically Modified Food.-The importance of risk communication as an integral part of risk management in the Republic of Serbia -- Metaphors and risk cognition in the discourse on food-borne diseases -- User-centred Design as a Risk Management Tool -- Analysis of the user behaviour when interacting with systems during critical situations -- Hydraulic Dam Safety Assessment with the Timed Observations Theory- Building a Domain Ontology to Design a Decision Support Software to Plan Fight Actions Against Marine Pollutions -- The operators' system of instruments: a risk management tool.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book presents recent research using cognitive science to apprehend risk situations and elaborate new organizations, new systems and new methodological tools in response. The book demonstrates the reasons, advantages and implications of the association of the concepts of cognition and risk. It is shown that this association has strong consequences on how to apprehend critical situations that emerge  within various activity domains, and how to elaborate responses to these critical situations.. The following topics are covered by the book: �     Influence of the culture in risk management, �     Influence of the risk communication in risk management, �     User-centred design to improve risk situation management, �     Designing new tools to assist risk situation management, �     Risk prevention in industrial activities.
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Introduction -- The Role of Risk Perception and Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Regulating Genetically Modified Food.-The importance of risk communication as an integral part of risk management in the Republic of Serbia -- Metaphors and risk cognition in the discourse on food-borne diseases -- User-centred Design as a Risk Management Tool -- Analysis of the user behaviour when interacting with systems during critical situations -- Hydraulic Dam Safety Assessment with the Timed Observations Theory- Building a Domain Ontology to Design a Decision Support Software to Plan Fight Actions Against Marine Pollutions -- The operators' system of instruments: a risk management tool.

This book presents recent research using cognitive science to apprehend risk situations and elaborate new organizations, new systems and new methodological tools in response. The book demonstrates the reasons, advantages and implications of the association of the concepts of cognition and risk. It is shown that this association has strong consequences on how to apprehend critical situations that emerge  within various activity domains, and how to elaborate responses to these critical situations.. The following topics are covered by the book: �     Influence of the culture in risk management, �     Influence of the risk communication in risk management, �     User-centred design to improve risk situation management, �     Designing new tools to assist risk situation management, �     Risk prevention in industrial activities.

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