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An Elemental Resource for the Human-Task Interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

George V. Kondraske
George V. Kondraske
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University of Texas at Arlington
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The elemental resource model (ERM) attempts to provide a quantitative and straightforward framework for characterizing the human system, tasks, and their interface. It evolved in large part from the general systems performance theory (GSPT), which was developed first and independently. Resource constructs are used exclusively for modeling the abstract idea of system performance and for subsequent measurement of performance resource capacities. Resource economic principles provide a cause-and-effect description of the human-task interface. While argued to have immediate utility, it also provides the motivation to consider coordinated, collaborative, long-term developments that could facilitate effective decision making and technology utilization in rehabilitation.

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Special Section: Technology and Disability
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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Spring 1995 , pp. 153 - 173
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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