Focus: Cognition, Technology & Work focuses on the practical issues of human interaction with technology within the context of work and, in particular, how human cognition affects, and is affected by, work and working conditions. The aim is to publish research that normally resides on the borderline between people, technology, and organisations. Including how people use information technology, how experience and expertise develop through work, and how incidents and accidents are due to the interaction between individual, technical and organisational factors. The target is thus the study of people at work from a cognitive systems engineering and socio-technical systems perspective. The most relevant working contexts of interest to CTW are those where the impact of modern technologies on people at work is particularly important for the users involved as well as for the effects on the environment and plants. Modern society has come to depend on the safe and efficient functioning of a multitude of technological systems as diverse as industrial production, transportation, communication, supply of energy, information and materials, health and finance. In particular, the working contexts where such impact is most relevant are, amongst others:· aviation, rail, maritime and road systems· medical and hospital environments· energy production and nuclear power plants· household and social contexts· plus other contexts where popular technology is being constantly utilised for everyday activities.The journal will also study how “operators” interact with technologies, such as pilots, drivers, plant and traffic controllers, maintenance engineers, doctors, and nurses, etc. while also including the users affected by the systems, such as passengers, patients and people in general.Motivation: Human work has irreversibly become work with technology and the nature of work has changed to make the role of human cognition more important. In the most affected environments, the human component is relevant both for the interactions of humans with control systems and for the effects that these interactions may have on the general public at large.People who work with technology are tightly coupled with it and must come to terms with the complexity of the socio-technical environment in order to ensure that their work is effective, safe and efficient.Consequently, understanding and analysing the joint functioning of people and socio-technical development, operation and maintenance systems, is the first key motivation of the studies proposed by CTW. This requires a multi-disciplinary approach, which combines the analysis of individuals with the study of technology and organisations.The second relevant motivation of CTW is that methods and methodologies proposed and applied in field studies must be able to be reproduced and implemented by readers in order to be really effective and useful. Therefore, the peculiarity of combining consolidated theoretical frameworks, with relevant implementations in real working contexts, and the assessment of results is essential for reaching the impact necessary to maintain the Journal at the edge of applied research and practical implementation that represent the major aim of CTW.

重點：認知、技術與工作側重于人類與技術在工作環境中相互作用的實際問題，特別是人類認知如何影響和受工作和工作條件的影響。其目的是公布研究成果，這些研究成果通常位于人、技術和組織之間的邊界。包括人們如何使用信息技術，如何通過工作發展經驗和專業知識，以及事故和事故是如何由個人、技術和組織因素之間的相互作用造成的。因此，目標是從認知系統工程和社會技術系統的角度研究工作中的人。CTW感興趣的最相關工作環境是現代技術對工作人員的影響對相關用戶以及對環境和工廠的影響尤為重要的工作環境。現代社會已經開始依賴于多種技術系統的安全和高效運行，這些系統包括工業生產、運輸、通信、能源供應、信息和材料、衛生和金融。尤其是，此類影響最為相關的工作環境包括：·航空、鐵路、海事和道路系統·醫療和醫院環境·能源生產和核電廠·家庭和社會背景·此外，在日常活動中還經常使用流行技術。該期刊還將研究“運營商”如何與飛行員、駕駛員、工廠和交通管制員、維修工程師、醫生和護士等技術進行互動，同時也包括受系統影響的用戶，如乘客、患者和一般人。動機：人類的工作已經不可逆轉地成為技術性的工作，工作的性質也發生了變化，使人類認知的作用更加重要。在受影響最嚴重的環境中，人的組成部分既與人類與控制系統的相互作用有關，也與這些相互作用可能對一般公眾產生的影響有關。從事技術工作的人與技術緊密結合，必須適應社會技術環境的復雜性，以確保他們的工作有效、安全和高效。因此，理解和分析人與社會技術發展、運行和維護系統的聯合功能是CTW提出的研究的第一個主要動機。這需要一個多學科的方法，它結合了個人的分析與技術和組織的研究。CTW的第二個相關動機是，在實地研究中提出和應用的方法和方法必須能夠被讀者復制和實施，才能真正有效和有用。因此，將綜合理論框架與實際工作環境中的相關實施相結合，并對結果進行評估的特性，對于達到使期刊保持在應用研究和實際實施的邊緣所需的影響至關重要，而這正是CTW的主要目標。