FUNCTIONAL FIXITY AS AN ANTAGONIST OF PRODUCTIVE THINKING OF a person

This paper provides an introduction to Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) and Ecological Interface Design (EID), as important complements to more conventional Human Factors Engineering approaches. These complementary perspectives are essential for supporting productive thinking in complex work domains, such as healthcare. We suggest that EHR systems provide a unique opportunity to take advantage of these approaches to support Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in healthcare and we show examples of these approaches to three different healthcare problems: cardiovascular health, pain management, and anemia.

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Transparency, Publicity, Democracy, and Markets: Inhabiting Tensions Through Hybridity

American Behavioral Scientist ◽

10.1177/0002764220945350 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 64 (11) ◽

pp. 1545-1564 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lee Edwards

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Empirical Reality ◽

Normative Power ◽

Self Interest ◽

Productive Thinking ◽

The Relationship

In this article, I explore the relationship between transparency and publicity, and consider how the links between the two ideas might be reconceptualized to make better sense of their empirical reality. Both transparency and publicity have acquired a normative power as management ideas that govern all kinds of organizations—political, commercial, nonprofit, and public sector. Transparency is normatively associated with ensuring accountability of those who govern (whether politically or economically) to those they are governing, while publicity is a strategic act motivated primarily by self-interest: to engage in publicity is to make visible something that one desires to be seen in a particular way in order to reap the benefits of that perception. The result of these normative associations is that transparency and publicity are often understood as conceptually opposed and incommensurate concepts. In this article, I challenge this dichotomy and suggest that, given the empirical reality of their application by organizations, it is more productive to understand the concepts as a transparency–publicity hybrid, rather than separate ideas. By investigating the empirical connections between transparency and what might be termed promotional publicity, new and more productive thinking about the effects of their interaction on organizations can develop.

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Productive thinking

Journal of Psychosomatic Research ◽

10.1016/0022-3999(63)90033-3 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 167-168

Author(s):

W.D. Furneaux

Keyword(s):

Productive Thinking

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The Mind's Eye: George G. Simpson's Use of Visual Language

Earth Sciences History ◽

10.17704/eshi.14.1.p2312774582116u0 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 37-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Léo Laporte

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Work ◽

Visual Language ◽

Fundamental Change ◽

Abstract Theory ◽

Adaptive Landscapes ◽

Statistical Inferences ◽

History Of ◽

Productive Thinking ◽

Mind's Eye ◽

Taxonomic Categories

Late in life, the American paleontologist George G. Simpson (1902-1984) remarked that "I compose my writing visually —I think visually, then translate that into words … I visualize at least as much as I verbalize, perhaps more. Even in abstract theory I often visualize first & then describe in words what I saw mentally." In much of his most significant theoretical work, Simpson did indeed use just such visual language to translate his more original concepts and interpretations regarding, for example, statistical inferences about evolving lineages, relationships of spedation to higher taxonomic categories, ratio diagrams of morphological dimensions, and species-density contouring. Simpson's most interesting and innovative visualizations had to do with organism-environment relationships, including adaptive landscapes, prospective and realized functions of organisms and environments, and especially the adaptive grid upon which he summarized his argument for variable rates and patterns of evolution —"tempo and mode" —in response to differing ecological opportunities available to animal and plant species. "There [is] much evidence that truly productive thinking in whatever area of cognition takes place in the realm of imagery." — Rudolf Arnheim "Acceptance of the conceptual importance of visual modes of discourse will require a rather fundamental change of intellectual values within the history of science" — Martin Rudwick "A diagram is no proof! A diagram is no proof!"—Francis Toner

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On the Wannseeheim Youth Center

New German Critique ◽

10.1215/0094033x-8607619 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 93-98

Author(s):

Barton Byg

Keyword(s):

Alternative Education ◽

Social Relations ◽

English Translation ◽

Visual Images ◽

Film Criticism ◽

Ordinary People ◽

German Cinema ◽

Productive Thinking ◽

First Time ◽

New German Cinema

Abstract Presented here for the first time in English translation is one of Harun Farocki’s earliest publications in the journal Filmkritik, of which he later became editor. Composed largely of quotations, Farocki’s text reports on film courses at the Wannseeheim Youth Center, a form of adult and alternative education in Berlin West. The introduction to Farocki’s text connects with the New German Cinema and themes that remained central throughout his own work: collaboration and quotation, Bertolt Brecht’s concept of “learning plays,” using nonfiction to explore both social relations and the cinematic apparatus, and seeing film as a form of “productive thinking.” It represents a kernel of Farocki’s wish to put the tools of filmmaking into the hands of ordinary people, thus revealing both theoretical aspects of the cinematic apparatus itself and the interweaving of visual images with social relations. With a deadpan, whimsical tone, Farocki argues that all this is, or should be, film criticism—in German, Filmkritik.

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