Top 100 posts

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

• Are we too trusting of GPS automation? (20505), July 26, 2011
• Redesigning the airline boarding pass (19572), November 15, 2010
• Apple, UCD, and Innovation – A Guest Post by Travis Bowles (10456), February 25, 2011
• Kitchen Taskonomy Part 1: A Guest Post by Kim Wolfinbarger (6234), January 4, 2011
• Little Printer Concept (6151), November 29, 2011
• Designing Displays for Older Adults: Chapter 1 (excerpt) (5964), August 18, 2010
• Beyond Touch: the future of interaction (3556), November 9, 2011
• Designing Displays for Older Adults: Chapter 4 Cognition (excerpt) (3460), January 10, 2011
• Designing Displays for Older Adults: Chapter 3 Hearing (excerpt) (3377), December 29, 2010
• Crowdsourced Usability III: Skype (2825), April 1, 2011
• Human Factors in the News: Next Generation Aviation (2583), August 17, 2011
• Blogging APA Division 21: The Cost of Automation Failure (2534), August 27, 2010
• Unintended Consequences of Design: Keyless Ignition Revisited (2477), February 21, 2011
• Scroll direction, touch screens, trackpads (2409), March 2, 2011
• 11 feet 8 inches (2404), September 2, 2010
• Call for Papers! APA 2011 in Washington D.C. (2183), October 29, 2010
• Kitchen Taskonomy Part 2: Paying Bills (A Guest Post by Kim Wolfinbarger) (2080), February 7, 2011
• Website Usability Success Story – Bethel University (1964), April 18, 2011
• Color Coded Elevator Buttons – Wow! (1812), November 4, 2010
• The Elusive Moodle! (1787), December 9, 2010
• Accidental Activation During Seat Adjustment on Plane (1677), December 1, 2010
• The Zero-Fatality Car (1671), August 6, 2010
• The Ultimate Driving Simulator (1669), October 25, 2010
• New Magazine-like Layout for iPad Users (1652), March 24, 2011
• ATM Alarms and Signal Detection Theory (1617), September 23, 2010
• False Alarms in the Hospital (1604), February 16, 2011
• Driven to Distraction (1583), April 19, 2011
• Blogging APA Division 21: Maximizing Stimulus-Response Compatibility (1570), August 19, 2010
• “Clomiphene” vs. “Clomipramine” (1559), September 1, 2010
• Microsoft’s Kinect Game Controller (1536), October 26, 2010
• Blogging APA Division 21: “One Thing at a Time” (but over a really long time) (1496), November 21, 2010
• Code Chartreuse – “Too many codes” (1493), August 9, 2010
• Designer of movie UIs to design real UIs (1477), February 11, 2011
• Automakers: Don’t skimp on the interface! (1470), February 27, 2011
• I see a very smudgey future… (1470), March 15, 2011
• “Having the Data is not enough” – Visualization Techniques (1467), December 7, 2010
• Profiles in Human Factors: Dr. Ron Shapiro (1425), January 28, 2011
• Ergonomic Advice from Star Trek (1387), August 5, 2010
• Profiles in Human Factors: Dr. Julian Sanchez, Medtronic (1382), January 25, 2011
• When poor usability costs you your job? (1380), March 30, 2011
• Cataloging the Rights Along with the Wrongs: Angry Birds (1376), March 10, 2011
• HF Potpourri (1374), September 20, 2010
• Profiles in Human Factors: Dr. Elizabeth Blickensderfer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (1371), March 1, 2011
• “It’s better for real”…not really [3D phones] (1366), February 14, 2011
• Children and Medication Errors – “Thanks, Mom and Dad!” (1346), December 3, 2010
• Miller Column Inception (or the geekiest movie you’ll see today) (1340), May 11, 2011
• Impending Disasters Announced Via Computer (1315), September 3, 2010
• Update on the BMW iDrive (1299), September 8, 2011
• Win a copy of Designing Displays for Older Adults (1291), December 18, 2010
• The Human Factors Prize (1290), March 4, 2011
• Blogging APA Division 21: “Who are we?” (how did we get here, and who do we want to be?) (1269), August 16, 2010
• Usability vs. Providing an Experience (1269), January 10, 2011
• Calibrating User’s Perception of Automation (1259), August 11, 2011
• Age-related differences in the use of the Internet (1253), December 16, 2010
• Blogging APA Division 21: You’re Looking Harmless Today (1251), August 23, 2010
• More usability in the news: CAPS LOCK OFF ON STREET SIGNS (1240), November 2, 2010
• Afford-door-ances (1236), October 4, 2010
• New website for Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology (1217), October 22, 2010
• Too standardized? – The problem of tube identification in hospitals (1211), August 25, 2010
• Verdict Reached for Air France Rio Crash (1204), July 29, 2011
• Honesty Hurts (especially when design is poor) (1190), February 15, 2011
• Furniture-flavored Pancakes (1162), October 20, 2010
• “Magic” Apple Mouse (1151), February 2, 2011
• What values are pilots allowed to enter for the weight of the plane? (1137), January 22, 2012
• Online Map Readability: A Comparison (1118), December 3, 2010
• Coming to APA 2011: A Conversation Hour on Use of Electronic Health Records in Clinical Practice (1115), August 2, 2011
• Treemapping Your Way to Healthier Food Choices (1114), August 2, 2011
• Neat SciAm Blog Post on InfoVis (1105), January 18, 2012
• HFES Madness–There’s still time! (1099), September 20, 2010
• Humans and Automation on the Colbert Report (1086), August 1, 2011
• Reminder: Proposals due for APA 2011 on Dec. 1st! (1059), November 23, 2010
• Trashcan Affordances (1030), February 8, 2011
• Blogging APA Division 21 (1002), August 15, 2010
• Hope to see you at APA 2011! (985), July 17, 2011
• Automation Issues Hit the Big Time on NPR (975), February 22, 2011
• Call for Papers! APA 2012 in Orlando, FL (972), October 21, 2011
• Keep up with the madness (946), September 30, 2010
• Wishing Everyone a Usable Day (939), November 11, 2010
• Speedometer Design (934), November 2, 2011
• Bill Buxton Likes Input Devices (931), May 13, 2011
• New Series: Profiles in Human Factors (914), January 24, 2011
• Don Norman Chimes in on Scrolling Direction (906), September 5, 2011
• Resources: Human Factors Design Considerations in Home Health Technology (895), July 19, 2011
• “Feel the pleasure of the mind in the least allayed” (890), May 6, 2011
• Failure to Design Out, Guard, or even Warn Results in Worker Pulled Through 5-inch Opening (882), June 3, 2011
• Was it the interface? (873), November 1, 2010
• Does this color make me look fat? (867), May 2, 2011
• Mobile Phone Design Constraints (863), June 14, 2011
• Radiation: The Difficulty of Monitoring the Invisible – Post 1 of 2 (851), April 22, 2011
• NYT: So Many Gadgets, So Many Aches (847), September 11, 2011
• For projectors, new technology means new training (and new errors!) (802), May 23, 2011
• “The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped” (801), July 5, 2011
• Radiation: The Difficulty of Monitoring the Invisible – Post 2 of 2 (746), April 27, 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
• Paper isn’t so bad… (693), December 15, 2011
• HFES Madness 2011 (684), July 21, 2011
• Harnessing your digital breadcrumbs (675), May 31, 2011
• Coming to APA in August: Information Foraging in the Social Web (628), July 21, 2011
• Redesigning a Mortgage Statement (620), December 27, 2011