April 2010

Situation Awareness Issue?

April 27, 2010
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Situation awareness fail?  No details but this happened in Dallas TX (via Fred Switzer, David Switzer):

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Facetted Navigation Primer

April 22, 2010

A List Apart recently posted an excerpt from Chapter 4 of Search Patterns by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender that presents a great description of facetted navigation (FN), a type of search interface. FN is contrasted with just text searching (e.g., Google), taxonomies (e.g., Windows Explorer or Mac Finder), and tag-based interfaces (e.g., Flickr).  See illustrative figure below if you [...]

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Driving, texting, and eating?

April 21, 2010
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Multiple behavioral studies have demonstrated our difficulties with multi-tasking. A new study provides the neurological mechanisms for those findings (and more behavioral data, of course!). From the LiveScience article: For those who find it tough to juggle more than a couple things at once, don’t despair. The brain is set up to manage two tasks, but not more, a new [...]

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Trust & Electronic Medical Records

April 15, 2010
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The Consumerist recently posted on something we haven’t tackled in our posts on electronic medical records: patient trust and privacy. The California HealthCare Foundation recently released the results of a survey on electronic medical records and consumer behavior. The survey found that 15% of people would hide things from their doctor if the medical record system shared anonymous data with [...]

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Online Banking Should Be Easier for Seniors

April 1, 2010

A new study has identified how poorly designed online and electronic banking is for older users and will seek to find remedies. From the news article in www.theengineer.co.uk: The new assistive technology developed by Newcastle and York researchers will be tried out by a variety of focus groups over 18 months. Some ideas include a wallet shaped foldable display. One [...]

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