abstract background: committing an error is part of the human nature. no health care provider, despite the mastery of their skills, is immune from committing it. medical error in the labor and obstetrics wards as well as other health units is inevitable and reduces the quality of health care, leading to accident. sometimes these events, like the death of mother, fetus, and newborn, would be bey...

We describe three applications of an attention-situation awareness model to predicting pilot performance in high fidelity flight simulations. The model incorporates the SEEV model of selective attention, in which eye movements are driven by salience, expectancy and value, and are inhibited by the effort required to move the eyes over longer distance and of concurrent tasks. In application 1, we...

At first sight, an article on human error based largely on military aviation accidents may appear to be inappropriate material for this journal, particularly when it is written by one whose total knowledge of anaesthesia has been confined to two sessions in a dentist’s chair; but a moment’s reflection may show that errors in the air and errors in the operating theatre have much in common. Thus ...

As participants in the 28th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society, we are all concerned with the influence of human characteristics on engineering and design processes. We know that success in our endeavors depends on how well we understand human factors and how well we translate that understanding into the development of products, entertainment, systems, facilities, environments, organiz...

Nachfolgend werden die Einführung von agiler Softwareentwicklung und die Erfahrungen innerhalb einer Abteilung mit ca. 100 Mitarbeitern mit dieser Methode über einen Zeitraum von fünf Jahren beschrieben. Dabei wird besonderer Wert auf die menschliche Seite der Veränderungen durch die Umstellungen gelegt. Es wird gezeigt, welche Gratwanderung ein solcher Umbruch sein kann, mit welchem Widerstand...

Today, crowdsourcing is used to “taskify” any job ranging from simple receipt transcription to collaborative editing, fan-subbing, citizen science, and citizen journalism. The crowd is typically volatile, its arrival and departure asynchronous, and its levels of attention and accuracy diverse. Tasks vary in complexity and may necessitate the participation of workers with varying degrees of expe...