Supporting the PROTECT Initiative

Compendium of Human Factors Projects Supporting the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative

The Baby-Friendly Initiative: Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding confers extensive and well-established benefits and is recognized as an extremely effective preventative health measure for both mothers and babies. Except in very few specific medical situations, breastfeeding should be universally encouraged for all mothers and infants. To improve worldwide breastfeeding initiation and duration rates, the WHO and UNICEF launched the Baby-Friendl...

Supporting Mixed Initiative Human a Script-based Cognitive Architecture

As complex indoor-robot systems are and deployed into the real-world, the demand for human-robot interaction is increasing human-robot interaction is a good method to coordinate actions of a human and a robot in a complementary In order to support such interactions, we are rich, flexible, and extensible for a robot’s variety of situations. Scripts are amenable for expressing knowledge in an app...

Supporting the Saudi e-health initiative: the Master of Health Informatics programme at KSAU-HS.

The health sector in Saudi Arabia has made significant progress in recent decades with some hospitals receiving international recognition. However, this has not been accompanied by advancements in the field of health informatics, which are necessary for hospitals to achieve certain objectives such as enhancing the quality of health care and reducing the time and cost of health care delivery. In...

Supporting Risk Management and Disaster Reduction: the Geohazards Community of Practice and the Supersite Initiative

Increased exposure to natural hazards in combination with limited preparedness and risk reduction leads to a rapidly growing number of major disasters and loss of property and human lives. The concept of the risk management cycle with the four phases of mitigation and preparedness, early warning, response, and recovery captures the steps necessary to reduce the number and scale of disasters. In...