2009 is the 30th anniversary of the original publication of Jens Rasmussen's Skill-Rule-Knowledge (S-R-K) framework in a technical report from Riso National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark (Rasmussen, 1979a). Given the influence of this work, it is timely to have a panel discussion that examines the impact of this paper and its current status. Since S-R-K is a three level heuristic, the panelists were also asked to address the questions: Can Human Factors be boiled down to just 3 levels? What are the 3 levels that capture the essentials of people at work?
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