Think! Interactive Systems Need Safety Locks

نویسنده

  • Harold W. Thimbleby
چکیده

Computers and computers embedded in everyday devices are not always as dangerous as guns, although there are many cases where they can be as dangerous. Medical devices may give patients undetected overdoses. In-car entertainment devices, like radios, may, through their badly-designed user interfaces, cause a driver to have an accident. A slip in a spreadsheet may be the first step towards an organisation going bankrupt. And so on.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CIT

دوره 18  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010