Fiction: Human errors

Human Nature : Fact and Fiction

Predictive Assessment of Driver Errors Using Human Error Template (HET)

Abstract Background an aims: Worldwide statistics declare that 1.2 million people are killed as a result of a road traffic accident (RTA). Besides, 20-50 million are injured every year. Traffic accidents account for leading causes 1.2% of deaths and 23% of injuries. In Iran, 16,000 people are annually cut short in traffic accidents. A great number of people suffer from non-fatal injuries/disab...

Slash fiction and human mating psychology.

The stark contrasts between romance novels and pornography, both multibillion dollar global industries, underscore how different male and female erotic fantasies actually are. These differences reflect the different selection pressures males and females faced over human evolutionary history and highlight the utility of using unobtrusive measures to study aspects of human nature. Salmon & Symons...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines: facts versus fiction

Throughout the article the authors, blamed the "theatrical hysteria" of the "alleged victims" and Japanese media which gave presumably the impression that the adverse events reported following HPV vaccine injection were causal while the authors claimed (on the basis of their opinion on this subject rather than any objective evidence), that the adverse events were purely coincidental and any all...

Human Errors and System Requirements

This paper reports a method of assessing the implications for human error on system requirements, a topic not usually considered during requirements engineering (RE). In our previous work, we proposed a taxonomy of influencing factors that might contribute to human error. This paper takes the taxonomy and elaborates it to suggest generic requirements to deal with problems in different layers of...