“The digital development has changed the core of working life” according to professor Bengt Sandblad

Our work environment is more and more digitalized. Many of us use a large number of IT systems in our work every day. Dysfunctional computer system becomes a work environment problem.

Professor Bengt Sandblad from the HTO group has done a report for the work environment authority in Sweden, He is also working on a book and he is also working on a book on the digital work environment. The book will appear around Christmas.

This week Bengt Sandblad is interviewed in Universen and some of the key ideas in the article are:

• The potential benefits of IT systems is often lost due to usability problems.
• The digital development will not to slow down. On the contrary:  it will move faster and faster.
• Often IT systems are not adapted to the needs of people, or the organization.
• Information overload is a crucial problem.
• We need to design systems that are made for human cognition.
• We have a tendency to build systems based on what computers are good at. Not what people are good at.
• There is a risk that work is what is left when the computers have done what they aren’t good at doing.

For more information read the full article 🙂 

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Åsa Cajander

Professor at Uppsala University

Åsa Cajander is the research leader of the HTO research group. She is Professor of Computer Science with a Specialization Towards Human-Computer Interaction at Uppsala University.

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