From the monthly archives:

October 2009

HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 3 – Health/Internet…and ROBOTS!

by Richard Pak
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One of my major interests at the moment is in the use of technological tools (primarily the Web) in the management of health.  So it was with great pleasure that there was so much research on this topic (I will mention more in future posts).
The first was presented in the Aging session (where Anne was program chair).  Jessie [...]

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Bad Design: Mouse mode and feedback

by Richard Pak
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I interrupt this HFES re-cap to express my slight dismay at my new computer mouse.  I purchased a portable Bluetooth-enabled mouse for my laptop (I hate using those mouse nubs).  The mouse is pretty nice because instead of a scroll wheel, it uses a full trackball to scroll.
Depending on my mood or environmental conditions, I can switch the mouse between [...]

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HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 2 – Eliciting Knowledge Structures

by Anne McLaughlin

I‘d like to highlight some of the talks I enjoyed last week and point our readers to their research.
First up, we have:
The Influence of Rating Method on Knowledge Structures.
Chad C. Tossell, Rice U.; Brent A. Smith, U.S. Air Force Academy; Roger W. Schvaneveldt, Arizona State U., Polytechnic
This talk was a great introduction to understanding how we organize information [...]

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HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 1

by Richard Pak

Anne and I just got back from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society conference held in San Antonio.  We plan on posting some snippets of posters/talks that we found interesting in an upcoming post.  But in the mean time, here is a panorama of the view from our hotel.

Being in San Antonio, TX, we also visited a Cowboy bar complete [...]

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Error Leads to Radiation Overdose

by Richard Pak
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Not much detail but the LATimes is reporting that:
“There was a misunderstanding about an embedded default setting applied by the machine . . . ,” officials at the renowned Los Angeles hospital said in a written statement that provided no other details about how the error occurred. “As a result, the use of this protocol resulted in a higher than [...]

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