Posts tagged with ‘Human Factors’

  • Major accident hazards in the gas industry

  • Responding to disaster using autonomous systems

  • Manufacturing in the cloud: users, consumers and systems

  • The beauty of user centred design

    Bad design is infuriating. It slows us down, annoys us, makes us late and irritated. But good design simply fits.…

  • Designing out medical error - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    Designing out medical error

    Designing Out Medical Error, DOME, was a three year, EPSRC-funded, multidisciplinary project aimed at designing safer healthcare equipment, processes and…

  • Healthcare Icon - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    Healthcare apps: uses and limitations

    Michael Craven and colleagues discuss the potential and the problems associated with using apps to support patients and carry out…

  • Inhaler - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    Actual v simulated use in human factors testing of medical devices

    Before medical devices can be used by the public they need to be tested, either with actual patients or through…

  • Clinical guidelines app - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    User-centred design of a clinical guidelines app

      Adrian Kwa describes the process of designing an app that allows doctors to access clinical guidelines quickly Clinical guidelines…

  • Healthcare - Heartlight - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    Healthcare technology challenges for tiny users

    John Crowe and colleagues describe the process of developing a pulse monitor for newborn babies. Instruments for monitoring physiological functions…