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--- abstract: |- This paper looks at the three main information processing models from the point of view of researchers in confidential human factors databases. It explores conceptual problems with two of these information processing models, and goes on to explore possible advantages of adopting a ‘connectionist’ paradigm. Links between connectionism and ‘situated cognition’ are demonstrated. Practical work carried out using a connectionist/situated cognition model is described, and the way in which the ‘situatedness’ of discourse can influence the kind of data that can be collected is discussed. Finally it is argued that more emphasis should be placed in ergonomics on sociation, situatedness and embodiment, and that this might help to deal with problems faced in creation and interrogating databases: especially as regards the creation of coherent and reliable ‘coding taxonomies’. altloc: - http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/Psychology/CASP3/InfProErg.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Wallace given: Brendan honourific: Dr lineage: '' - family: Ross given: Alastair honourific: Dr lineage: '' - family: Davies given: John honourific: Professor lineage: '' date: 2003 date_type: published datestamp: 2003-08-08 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/30/93 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: McCabe given: Paul honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 3093 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/3093/1/InfProErg.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Information Processing, taxonomies, cognitivism, connectionism, ergonomics, safety, CIRAS' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:19 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 543-549 pubdom: FALSE publication: Contemporary Ergonomics 2003 publisher: Taylor and Francis refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- Atkinson, R.C., and Shiffrin, R.M. 1971, The Control of Short Term Memory Scientific American, 225, 2, 82-92 Baddeley, A. 1986, Working Memory, (Oxford University Press, Oxford) Barba, G. 1999. 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