John Flach is an Applied Cognitive Psychologist. It is cool work because he bridges the gap between What and How? Like, What does it mean to be a airline pilot and How do you fly a passenger plane.
Our experiences in life are quite different, yet our perspective and philosophies are quite similar. We discover this in our conversation.
Welcome John Flach to The Eddy Network Podcast. I enjoyed our time together very much.
Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Wright State University
Perspicacity - Principal - https://blogs.wright.edu/learn/johnflach/about/
What Matters?: Putting Common Sense To Work - Co-author with Fred A Voorhorst
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joflach/
Bio:
John Flach received his Ph.D. in human experimental psychology from The Ohio State University in 1984. After more than 30 years teaching and supervising graduate research in universities (Illinois @ Champaign-Urbana, Wright State University), he joined Mile Two, a custom software development company as a Senior Cognitive Systems Engineer. In 2023, John left Mile Two to pursue independent consulting work. John has written extensively about Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) and Ecological approaches to human performance and design (including 3 co-authored books; 3 co-edited books; and more than 180 archival publications). See John's author page on Amazon for access to his books: https://www.amazon.com/John-Flach/e/B001KHKPW0.
John Flach’s book is worth reading! Great introduction to amazing concepts of human factors!