Top 100 posts

The 100 most popular posts by views (from the past year):

• Little Printer Concept (40461), November 29, 2011
• Are we too trusting of GPS automation? (21092), July 26, 2011
• Apple, UCD, and Innovation – A Guest Post by Travis Bowles (11367), February 25, 2011
• Kitchen Taskonomy Part 1: A Guest Post by Kim Wolfinbarger (7160), January 4, 2011
• What values are pilots allowed to enter for the weight of the plane? (6763), January 22, 2012
• Beyond Touch: the future of interaction (4279), November 9, 2011
• Designing Displays for Older Adults: Chapter 4 Cognition (excerpt) (3990), January 10, 2011
• Revisiting an academic’s use of the iPad (3914), March 9, 2012
• Designing Displays for Older Adults: Chapter 3 Hearing (excerpt) (3856), December 29, 2010
• Crowdsourced Usability III: Skype (3391), April 1, 2011
• Human Factors in the News: Next Generation Aviation (3300), August 17, 2011
• Older adults and Windows 8 (3296), March 13, 2012
• Scroll direction, touch screens, trackpads (3086), March 2, 2011
• Unintended Consequences of Design: Keyless Ignition Revisited (2995), February 21, 2011
• Recent Research Potpourri (2542), March 19, 2012
• Distracted Learning (2436), April 4, 2012
• Kitchen Taskonomy Part 2: Paying Bills (A Guest Post by Kim Wolfinbarger) (2420), February 7, 2011
• Website Usability Success Story – Bethel University (2385), April 18, 2011
• The Elusive Moodle! (2144), December 9, 2010
• False Alarms in the Hospital (2091), February 16, 2011
• Accidental Activation During Seat Adjustment on Plane (2079), December 1, 2010
• New Magazine-like Layout for iPad Users (2055), March 24, 2011
• Driven to Distraction (1983), April 19, 2011
• Update on the BMW iDrive (1972), September 8, 2011
• Neat SciAm Blog Post on InfoVis (1939), January 18, 2012
• Profiles in Human Factors: Dr. Elizabeth Blickensderfer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (1879), March 1, 2011
• Profiles in Human Factors: Dr. Ron Shapiro (1860), January 28, 2011
• Designer of movie UIs to design real UIs (1847), February 11, 2011
• Automakers: Don’t skimp on the interface! (1812), February 27, 2011
• Calibrating User’s Perception of Automation (1803), August 11, 2011
• Miller Column Inception (or the geekiest movie you’ll see today) (1792), May 11, 2011
• Profiles in Human Factors: Dr. Julian Sanchez, Medtronic (1782), January 25, 2011
• I see a very smudgey future… (1779), March 15, 2011
• “Having the Data is not enough” – Visualization Techniques (1775), December 7, 2010
• Cataloging the Rights Along with the Wrongs: Angry Birds (1746), March 10, 2011
• Looking down the barrel of a gun (1746), February 10, 2012
• Children and Medication Errors – “Thanks, Mom and Dad!” (1739), December 3, 2010
• Fun with confusing medication names! (1739), February 2, 2012
• Lack of human factors = more of your tax dollars at “work” (1722), April 22, 2012
• Call for Papers! APA 2012 in Orlando, FL (1720), October 21, 2011
• “It’s better for real”…not really [3D phones] (1718), February 14, 2011
• When poor usability costs you your job? (1717), March 30, 2011
• “I wasn’t trying to make a computer interface, I was just trying to make a drum” – NPR interviews Bill Buxton (Array), January 7, 2012
• “I wasn’t trying to make a computer interface, I was just trying to make a drum” – NPR interviews Bill Buxton (Array), January 7, 2012
• Honesty Hurts (especially when design is poor) (1676), February 15, 2011
• The Human Factors Prize (1675), March 4, 2011
• Verdict Reached for Air France Rio Crash (1658), July 29, 2011
• Coming to APA 2011: A Conversation Hour on Use of Electronic Health Records in Clinical Practice (1658), August 2, 2011
• Usability vs. Providing an Experience (1573), January 10, 2011
• Treemapping Your Way to Healthier Food Choices (1568), August 2, 2011
• Age-related differences in the use of the Internet (1526), December 16, 2010
• Win a copy of Designing Displays for Older Adults (1513), December 18, 2010
• Who’s responsible when the robot (or automation) is wrong? (1501), April 23, 2012
• Hope to see you at APA 2011! (1494), July 17, 2011
• Humans and Automation on the Colbert Report (1480), August 1, 2011
• A collection of beautiful and creative information visualizations (1480), February 14, 2012
• Online Map Readability: A Comparison (1478), December 3, 2010
• Speedometer Design (1471), November 2, 2011
• “Magic” Apple Mouse (1455), February 2, 2011
• Influence of Environment on Behavior (1454), January 4, 2012
• Bad Usability Causes Cranky Babies (1450), February 17, 2012
• Don Norman Chimes in on Scrolling Direction (1449), September 5, 2011
• Mechanical exerciser interface from 1938 (1437), February 20, 2012
• Development of the ground proximity warning system for aviation (1425), February 8, 2012
• Paper isn’t so bad… (1408), December 15, 2011
• Usability Follies in the News (1394), March 7, 2012
• Redesigning a Mortgage Statement (1386), December 27, 2011
• Excerpts from the NASA ASRS (1383), January 28, 2012
• Resources: Human Factors Design Considerations in Home Health Technology (1356), July 19, 2011
• ATM Accessibility (not) (1330), January 3, 2012
• NYT: So Many Gadgets, So Many Aches (1316), September 11, 2011
• Automation Issues Hit the Big Time on NPR (1308), February 22, 2011
• New automation will warn drivers of lane changes (1300), February 7, 2012
• Intuitive Interfaces for Software Developers (1298), January 9, 2012
• Mobile Phone Design Constraints (1297), June 14, 2011
• Bill Buxton Likes Input Devices (1287), May 13, 2011
• Reminder: Proposals due for APA 2011 on Dec. 1st! (1249), November 23, 2010
• Trashcan Affordances (1248), February 8, 2011
• Failure to Design Out, Guard, or even Warn Results in Worker Pulled Through 5-inch Opening (1236), June 3, 2011
• “The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped” (1219), July 5, 2011
• Radiation: The Difficulty of Monitoring the Invisible – Post 1 of 2 (1208), April 22, 2011
• Does this color make me look fat? (1197), May 2, 2011
• New Series: Profiles in Human Factors (1166), January 24, 2011
• For projectors, new technology means new training (and new errors!) (1143), May 23, 2011
• Radiation: The Difficulty of Monitoring the Invisible – Post 2 of 2 (1131), April 27, 2011
• “Feel the pleasure of the mind in the least allayed” (1108), May 6, 2011
• Rudder knob in cockpit mistaken for door latch (1080), November 1, 2011
• I just want some gas… (1079), March 9, 2012
• Learning to use a steering wheel with no vision or feedback (1031), December 20, 2011
• Winner of HFES Morning Madness (1014), October 1, 2011
• Virtual Assistants (automation) and Etiquette (990), December 6, 2011
• HFES Madness 2011 (955), July 21, 2011
• Coming to APA in August: Information Foraging in the Social Web (944), July 21, 2011
• Harnessing your digital breadcrumbs (912), May 31, 2011
• Book Giveaway Winners (756), January 18, 2011
• Two New HF Blogs (634), May 14, 2012