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The Real Deal: Lessons from Human Factors Leaders (2007)
Each professional discipline has a set of essential concepts that form the core of its intellectual capital. This is also true for human factors and ergonomics (HF/E), but what is that set? While HFES national meeting sessions address particular research interests, no session embraces essential aspects that affect the entire HF/E community. A panel of senior professionals offered their insights on the essential HF/E issues during this session. Some were serious, such as most important classic concept, and recent developments in HF/E. Others were irreverent, thought-provoking, and fun, such as: the bad idea that won’t go away and the idea that’s most overused but least understood. Panel members also recommended publications that audience members can use to build their professional library. Chair: Chris Nemeth, PhD.
At the 2007 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting, panel members addressed issues that affect all human factors professionals and recommended essential readings. View transcribed comments by panelists Peter Hancock, Dick Pew, Emilie Roth, Tom Sheridan, and David Woods as well as audience questions and comments on the most important classic HF/E concept, recent developments in HF/E, the most influential HF/E concept, the best empirical and conceptual work, the bad idea that won't go away, and the most overused idea in HF/E. |
Brave New World Symposium on Healthcare Systems (2005)
The Lab hosted a colloquium at the 2005 national conference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and published a proceedings paper to focus attention on the implications of integrating complex, untested information technology (IT) systems in healthcare. (more) |
Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) in Healthcare (2004)
PRA methods are used in industries such as nuclear power generation to determine the likelihood of infrequent, but significant, adverse events. In healthcare, PRA can be used to identify potential weak spots in a process such as organ transplantation where failures may occur that can result in undesirable outcomes such as patient harm. The Lab PRA team considers questions that include: What are the generic steps and vulnerabilities that, if addressed, would lead to more broad improvements in patient safety? What data and studies are required to make such extrapolations? What roles can be performed by organizations such as federal government agencies in such an extrapolation process? An October 2004 workshop and final report address the nature and potential for PRA to be used in the improvement of patient safety in organ transplantation. |
Insights from Technical Work Studies in Health Care (2003)
Richard Cook and David Woods (Ohio State University) organized and presented a symposium on field studies to understand technical work in healthcare at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society national conference in Denver on 15 Oct 2003. Christopher Nemeth, Richard Cook and David Woods edited a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics (Part A) that was published in November 2004. Under the theme “Using Field Studies to Understand Technical Work,” the issue included six papers in addition to the original HFES authors. |
The Human Factors of Next Generation Infusion Devices (2003)
The Lab hosted a colloquium on the human factors of infusion devices on16-Oct-03 at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society meeting in Denver, CO. A white paper describing the issues identified in that session is in preparation. For background material on the theme, you may download the symposium announcement in PDF (102KB) format; the agenda used for this meeting is also available in PDF (33 KB). A listserver for ongoing discussion of the human factors of infusion devices is available. Individuals involved in research, development, or assessment of infusion devices are invited to subscribe. |
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