I just joined HFES, and the Communication Technical Group (and Education Group). My background is, and I have taught philosophy, from an ergonomics (cybernetics) approach. My third book, Unified Philosophy: Interdisciplinary Metaphysics, Ethics, and Liberal Arts, 3rd edition, shows ergonomics as basic to philosophy and its branches. Ergonomics has major positive implications for philosophy, general education; ergonomics designs specialization to take into account (or as Chapanis puts it....to match), general education's limits, orientations, factors. I attach for now, a powerpoint of my book's major chapter ideas in simple English. Each chapter has four points in a taxonomy, but for now, I show three. Ergonomics is the middle position, steering (i.e. cybernetic) between the two extremes of environment alone, and no environment. I am influenced by Jack Adam's book, Human Factors Engineering. I look forward to discussions with HFES, especially Communications Technical Group members.
A taxonomy involving ergonomics and communications would be, broadly speaking:
communications or data along Shannon and Weaver without the (communal) interpersonal factors
Ergonomic/communal communication, putting Shannon and Weaver into interpersonal factors
Dualism
Community without communications/data. the monastery. The world rejecting ascetic
My email is
mkazanjian@sbcglobal.net and I am interested in exchanging views on expanding ergonomics as basis for liberal arts. My work may well be controversial (cutting edge?) within traditional ergonomics/human factors. Current books and other literature on ergonomics, emphasizing the human factor, intrigues.
Thanks,
Michael M. Kazanjian