FRS thematic workshop: Linking engineering resilience and social science

Engineered systems in Singapore and worldwide are becoming increasingly complex social-technical systems. With the growing number of hazards and attacks, there is a pressing need to develop resilient solutions at the intersection of engineering and social science for providing risk-informed decision support. To this aim, the workshop will bring together researchers from both engineering and social science disciplines, exploring the linkages between engineering resilience and social science. FRS researchers will share their experiences on two relevant topics, i.e., “interplay between human and engineered systems” and “distributed cognition to support stakeholders”. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss further on how to better understand human factors in engineered systems from the angle of social science to achieve better resilience.

Objectives of the workshop:

1. Get a common understanding of how humans interact with engineered systems
2. Explore linkages between engineering resilience and social science 
3. Bring together researchers from engineering and social science disciplines

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Agenda:

• 3:00 - 3:05: Opening
  
• 3:05 - 3:35: Panel session 1 – “Interplay between human and engineered systems"
  [10 mins each]
  • Understanding the effect of human response in cyber-enabled emergency response management
  • How electric vehicle (EV) users’ behaviour can impact the urban EV charging infrastructure during floods?
  • Impact of urban density on the recovery of social-technical system
  
• 3:35 – 3:45 Discussion
  
• 3:45 - 3:50 Break
  
  
• 3:50 – 4:20 Panel session 2 – “Distributed cognition to support stakeholders”
  [10 mins each]
  • Risks, challenges and adoption of mobile wallet
  • Optimising strategies for communicating predicted disruptions to stakeholders
  • Hazards detection via social media
  
• 4:20 – 4:30 Discussion
• 4:30 – 4:40 Break
  
  
• 4:40 – 5:40 Parallel breakout session
  Participants will discuss on human behaviours / factors in engineered systems from the perspective of social science and engineering. 
  
• 5:40 – 5:45 Closing remarks