Reducing human error

Reducing Human Error in Simulation in General Motors

This paper focuses on the steps taken to minimize human error in simulation modeling in General Motors. While errors are costly and undesirable in any field, they are especially harmful in simulation which has been struggling to gain acceptance in the business world for a long time. The solution discussed in this paper can be summarized as “enter the data once and use the best tool for the job.”

Reducing sources of human error in transmission of alphanumeric codes.

Human error in the transmission of coded information can be reduced by careful choice of vocabulary, using empirical evidence already available.

Reducing human error in cyber security using the Human Factors Analysis Classification System (HFACS)

For several decades, researchers have stated that human error is a significant cause of information security breaches, yet it still remains to be a major issue today. Quantifying the effects of security incidents is often a difficult task because studies often understate or overstate the costs involved. Human error has always been a cause of failure in many industries and professions that is ov...

Reducing error and improving patient safety.

Reducing positional error in spatio-temporal analyses

A frequent method used to assess land use / land cover (LULC) change is the comparison (overlay) of digital maps of an area within a geographic information system (GIS). However, positional errors of the maps involved in the comparison tend to create “false” change polygons and to overestimate LULC change. In this work, a simple method to improve change estimates by detecting and correcting err...