An e-book version of “Designing for People: An introduction to human factors engineering” is now available on Amazon for pre-order. The good news is that it is free for those with Kindle Unlimited. Beyond...
This collection of movies provide an entertaining, and a potentially useful, complement to the textbook “Designing for People: An introduction to human factors engineering“. The films show examples of human factors design concepts in...
Design Thinking is a popular way of enhancing the design process. Its human-centered focus and emphasis experimentation promise innovative products. Like all simple distillations of a complex process, Design Thinking lacks important elements. It neglects...
As self-driving cars begin to share the road with traditional cars a critical question emerges: “How safe is safe enough?” Often this question is framed in terms of objective estimates of risk based on...
Driver distraction is one reason why the US lags the rest of the world in driving safety. The US has one of the worst safety records of any developed nation either by fatality per kilometer traveled...
The book “Designing for People: An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering” contains many Human Factors engineering concepts from the broad areas of: Design and evaluation techniques Cognitive characteristics of people Physical characteristics of people...
Signal Detection Theory has broad applicability and is a central concept in understanding human performance and the inevitability of “human error”. Its central concepts also apply to understanding the performance of machine learning algorithms...
Data visualization can extend the power of human perception to understand complex phenomena. Viewing data from hundreds or thousands of time series is difficult because simply plotting the raw time series data quickly leads...
Apple’s 3D Touch provides a new set of interactions, such as firmly pressing rather than tapping. Unfortunately this is impossible for people to see and hard to discover. This lack of discoverability is a...
Statistical analysis typically focusses on numeric, quantitative data. Quantitative analysis of text is less common, but possible. This analysis shows a simple text analysis applied to the transript of the iPhone announcements in 2007...
Physical layout matters: sidebars and other features of print textbooks lead to better comprehension http://www.businessinsider.com/students-learning-education-print-textbooks-screens-study-2017-10 Students prefer electronic versions of text books and they read faster, but they learn more with printed versions. Not...