Using FRAM beyond safety: a case study to explore how sociotechnical systems can flourish or stall

Using FRAM beyond safety: A case study to explore how sociotechnical systems can flourish or stall

Beyond Usability for Safety Critical Systems: How to be SURE

While a significant effort is currently being undertaken by the CHI community in order to apply and extend current usability evaluation techniques to new kinds of interaction techniques very little has been done to improve the reliability of software offering these kinds of interaction techniques. As these new interaction techniques are currently more and more used in the field of command and c...

How to flourish during an economic downturn.

Everyone knows that America’s economy is in trouble. How is this affecting dentistry? Many practices are experiencing more open time, a record number of broken appointments and less production as Americans tighten their purse strings. Some practices are closing their doors and there are dentists looking to work additional days in busier practices. People are losing jobs and insurance benefits a...

How can I explore high-dimensional data?

High-dimensional data hinder sample visualiza-tion and limit exploration of data 1. In these cases, we can make use of multivariate analysis techniques, such as Factor Analysis (FA) and/or Principal Component Analysis (PCA), to reduce a complex data set to one of lower dimensions so as to reveal any hidden features and simplify understanding. In order to render interpretation of FA and PCA easi...

Using a Social Media Platform to Explore How Social Media Can Enhance Primary and Secondary Learning

The growing set of Social Media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google Docs has the potential to enhance primary and secondary learning. To collect and evaluate suggestions for novel applications of social media to learning from online participants, we created a version of our Collective Discovery Engine. Over 155, educators, engineers, and social scientists responded to our ema...