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Browse the 509 posts of the Human Factors Blog organized by month/year.

February 2022 (1)
- 16: “All Too Human” Now Available (0)
August 2020 (1)
- 03: Infovis in the coronavirus era (0)
June 2020 (1)
- 30: It’s like having 10 different remote controls for 10 different TVs (0)
December 2019 (1)
- 19: Would You Let a Robot Take Care of Your Mother? NYT.com (0)
August 2019 (1)
- 19: Workshop on Designing for Older Adults (0)
February 2019 (1)
- 26: Third Edition of Designing for Older Adults (0)
January 2019 (1)
- 18: Listening to the End User: NHL/NHLPA Collaboration with Hockey Goalies (0)
November 2018 (3)
- 30: The current need for enforcement of safety regulations (0)
- 27: Lion Air Crash from October 2018 (0)
- 26: Human Factors and the Ballot Box (0)
February 2018 (1)
- 04: Hawaii False Alarm: The story that keeps on giving (0)
January 2018 (1)
- 15: ‘Mom, are we going to die today? Why won’t you answer me?’ – False Nuclear Alarm in Hawaii Due to User Interface (1)
December 2017 (2)
- 08: [humanautonomy.com] Dr. Mica Endsley: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities In Human-Autonomy Research (0)
- 02: Down on the farm: Human factors psychologist Margaux Ascherl optimizes technology to make farming more efficient (0)
November 2017 (5)
- 30: Human-Robot/AI Relationships: Interview with Dr. Julie Carpenter (0)
- 16: Throwback Thursday: A model for types and levels of automation [humanautonomy.com] (0)
- 09: Throwback Thursday: The Ironies of Automation [humanautonomy.com] (0)
- 03: Did a User Interface Kill 10 Navy Sailors? (0)
- 02: “Applied psychology is hot, and it’s only getting hotter”…and one more thing (0)
October 2017 (2)
- 20: Designing the technology of ‘Blade Runner 2049’ (0)
- 08: Outside Magazine profile’s Anne’s rock climbing & human factors research (0)
January 2017 (4)
- 25: Tesla counterpoint: “40% reduction in crashes” with introduction of Autosteer (0)
- 24: Toyota Gets It: Self-driving cars depend more on people than on engineering (1)
- 04: I wouldn’t have come up with the idea myself. (0)
- 02: The Patient Writes the Prescription (1)
December 2016 (1)
- 10: Calling the Media out for Misleading InfoViz (0)
November 2016 (2)
- 20: Institutional Memory, Culture, & Disaster (0)
- 16: Thoughtful and Fun Interfaces in the Reykjavik City Museum (0)
October 2016 (1)
- 20: Tesla is wrong to use “autopilot” term (0)
August 2016 (1)
- 11: What happens when you throw away the rulebook (0)
May 2016 (3)
- 03: Human Factors Potpourri (0)
- 02: Humor in the Hospital (0)
- 01: So you want to go to school for Human Factors: Final Steps (0)
March 2016 (4)
- 17: Wiener’s Laws (0)
- 14: So you want to go to school for Human Factors: The Approach Email (0)
- 05: Discussion of Human Factors on “Big Picture Science” podcast (0)
- 03: So you want to go to school for Human Factors: General Sequence of Events (1)
February 2016 (4)
- 29: Human Factors Psychology Dominates Best Psychology Jobs (0)
- 29: So you want to go to graduate school in Human Factors? (5)
- 25: Big Data and A/B Testing (0)
- 16: Warning against overgeneralizing in UX (0)
July 2015 (5)
- 31: Assistant Professor Position at Texas Tech (0)
- 30: Helmet Design and Environment Interaction (1)
- 28: Prominent figures warn of dangerous Artificial Intelligence (it’s probably a bad HF idea too) (0)
- 20: Three months with Apple Watch (0)
- 10: Psychology Podcasts (2)
May 2015 (1)
- 01: Rock Climbing Human Factors – Harness attachment points (5)
April 2015 (1)
- 08: Parking sign re-design (0)
March 2015 (2)
- 17: Only usability people will get this… (0)
- 15: The Square Cash Disappearing Act (1)
February 2015 (4)
- 17: Ten Years of Designing for Humans (0)
- 15: Fun infovis on words in RateMyProfessor (1)
- 12: Short Course in Anthropometry (0)
- 03: Treemap sighting in the wild: U.S. Budget proposal (0)
January 2015 (1)
- 21: Nonagenarian designs for aging and inspires younger designers (1)
September 2014 (3)
- 15: Apple Watch Human Factors (0)
- 09: Brand Trumps Content (0)
- 04: Haikuman Factors (0)
August 2014 (1)
- 28: Wearable Fitness Trackers: A Comparative Usability Evaluation (2)
March 2014 (1)
- 18: Interesting control/display (0)
January 2014 (1)
- 08: Radio interview with Rich (1)
December 2013 (1)
- 17: Worst Mobile Interface Ever (0)
November 2013 (4)
- 25: Tylenol: A narrow margin of safety (1)
- 22: Brilliant guard against accidents in indoor rock climbing (5)
- 19: Usability process not used for ACA website (0)
- 19: Age-related design of a TV Remote (0)
October 2013 (1)
- 08: The Future Newsroom (bad touchscreen lag) (0)
September 2013 (1)
- 10: Novel 3D Interaction Methods (0)
June 2013 (1)
- 24: Potpourri–Lazy Summer Edition (0)
May 2013 (1)
- 20: Human-Technology Interactions in Health (0)
April 2013 (3)
- 26: Recent developments in in-vehicle distractions: Voice input no better than manual input (1)
- 11: Potpourri (0)
- 04: Usability of a Glass Dashboard? (2)
March 2013 (1)
- 21: Programming note: Please update your feedreaders (0)
February 2013 (3)
- 13: Continuing Adventures of an Academic’s Use of the iPad (mini) (0)
- 12: The Other Father of Human Factors: John E. Karlin (0)
- 01: How Do You Teach Human Factors? (0)
January 2013 (2)
- 31: Anne & Rich Interviewed about Human Factors (0)
- 28: Begging robots, overly familiar websites, and the power of the unconscious? (0)
November 2012 (3)
- 19: Paper prototyping made easier (0)
- 17: Effective visualization of an ongoing process (0)
- 06: HF/Usability Potpourri (0)
October 2012 (2)
- 30: Principles of Animation in UI Design (0)
- 08: Goodbye Mouse? (0)
September 2012 (3)
- 28: What Apple Maps “PR Disaster” Says about Human-Automation Interaction (6)
- 17: Product Confusability: Tide Pods (2)
- 05: App Usability Evaluations for the Mental Health Field (0)
August 2012 (6)
- 31: User Testing for Interplanetary Expeditions (0)
- 27: Human Factors of the Dark Side (0)
- 22: No one wants to touch the gas pump (2)
- 21: Prescription Smartphone Apps (0)
- 08: The Incredible Hulking Factor (0)
- 07: Everyday Automation: Auto-correct (2)
July 2012 (4)
- 20: Collection of Aviation Safety Articles & Student Activity Ideas (0)
- 16: String of Workplace Incidents Lead to Death (0)
- 11: HFES on LinkedIn (0)
- 03: Introducing the principle of graceful error recovery to state government (0)
June 2012 (5)
- 30: The Automobile Fuel Gauge – a ‘failed’ pictogram (0)
- 27: Innate number sense changes with age (0)
- 25: What’s Good About Growing Old (0)
- 25: Pilots forget to lower landing gear after cell phone distraction (0)
- 20: Human Factors discussed on the “Big Picture Science” podcast (0)
May 2012 (2)
- 30: Using the iPad in Academia (1)
- 14: Two New HF Blogs (0)
April 2012 (3)
- 23: Who’s responsible when the robot (or automation) is wrong? (0)
- 22: Lack of human factors = more of your tax dollars at “work” (1)
- 04: Distracted Learning (3)
March 2012 (5)
- 19: Recent Research Potpourri (1)
- 13: Older adults and Windows 8 (1)
- 09: Revisiting an academic’s use of the iPad (10)
- 09: I just want some gas… (0)
- 07: Usability Follies in the News (1)
February 2012 (7)
- 20: Mechanical exerciser interface from 1938 (2)
- 17: Bad Usability Causes Cranky Babies (0)
- 14: A collection of beautiful and creative information visualizations (0)
- 10: Looking down the barrel of a gun (2)
- 08: Development of the ground proximity warning system for aviation (0)
- 07: New automation will warn drivers of lane changes (0)
- 02: Fun with confusing medication names! (1)
January 2012 (6)
- 28: Excerpts from the NASA ASRS (0)
- 22: What values are pilots allowed to enter for the weight of the plane? (2)
- 18: Neat SciAm Blog Post on InfoVis (2)
- 09: Intuitive Interfaces for Software Developers (0)
- 07: “I wasn’t trying to make a computer interface, I was just trying to make a drum” – NPR interviews Bill Buxton (0)
- 03: ATM Accessibility (not) (0)
December 2011 (4)
- 27: Redesigning a Mortgage Statement (0)
- 20: Learning to use a steering wheel with no vision or feedback (0)
- 15: Paper isn’t so bad… (1)
- 06: Virtual Assistants (automation) and Etiquette (0)
November 2011 (4)
- 29: Little Printer Concept (2)
- 09: Beyond Touch: the future of interaction (3)
- 02: Speedometer Design (0)
- 01: Rudder knob in cockpit mistaken for door latch (0)
October 2011 (1)
- 01: Winner of HFES Morning Madness (0)
September 2011 (3)
- 11: NYT: So Many Gadgets, So Many Aches (0)
- 08: Update on the BMW iDrive (0)
- 05: Don Norman Chimes in on Scrolling Direction (0)
August 2011 (5)
- 17: Human Factors in the News: Next Generation Aviation (1)
- 11: Calibrating User’s Perception of Automation (0)
- 02: Coming to APA 2011: A Conversation Hour on Use of Electronic Health Records in Clinical Practice (1)
- 02: Treemapping Your Way to Healthier Food Choices (0)
- 01: Humans and Automation on the Colbert Report (1)
July 2011 (7)
- 29: Verdict Reached for Air France Rio Crash (1)
- 26: Are we too trusting of GPS automation? (2)
- 21: HFES Madness 2011 (0)
- 21: Coming to APA in August: Information Foraging in the Social Web (0)
- 19: Resources: Human Factors Design Considerations in Home Health Technology (0)
- 17: Hope to see you at APA 2011! (2)
- 05: “The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped” (0)
June 2011 (2)
- 14: Mobile Phone Design Constraints (0)
- 03: Failure to Design Out, Guard, or even Warn Results in Worker Pulled Through 5-inch Opening (0)
May 2011 (6)
- 31: Harnessing your digital breadcrumbs (0)
- 23: For projectors, new technology means new training (and new errors!) (0)
- 13: Bill Buxton Likes Input Devices (0)
- 11: Miller Column Inception (or the geekiest movie you’ll see today) (1)
- 06: “Feel the pleasure of the mind in the least allayed” (0)
- 02: Does this color make me look fat? (0)
April 2011 (5)
- 27: Radiation: The Difficulty of Monitoring the Invisible – Post 2 of 2 (0)
- 22: Radiation: The Difficulty of Monitoring the Invisible – Post 1 of 2 (0)
- 19: Driven to Distraction (2)
- 18: Website Usability Success Story – Bethel University (1)
- 01: Crowdsourced Usability III: Skype (12)
March 2011 (7)
- 30: When poor usability costs you your job? (3)
- 24: New Magazine-like Layout for iPad Users (3)
- 15: I see a very smudgey future… (3)
- 10: Cataloging the Rights Along with the Wrongs: Angry Birds (2)
- 04: The Human Factors Prize (3)
- 02: Scroll direction, touch screens, trackpads (5)
- 01: Profiles in Human Factors: Dr. Elizabeth Blickensderfer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (2)
February 2011 (11)
- 27: Automakers: Don’t skimp on the interface! (3)
- 25: Apple, UCD, and Innovation – A Guest Post by Travis Bowles (9)
- 22: Automation Issues Hit the Big Time on NPR (0)
- 21: Unintended Consequences of Design: Keyless Ignition Revisited (8)
- 16: False Alarms in the Hospital (2)
- 15: Honesty Hurts (especially when design is poor) (1)
- 14: “It’s better for real”…not really [3D phones] (3)
- 11: Designer of movie UIs to design real UIs (2)
- 08: Trashcan Affordances (1)
- 07: Kitchen Taskonomy Part 2: Paying Bills (A Guest Post by Kim Wolfinbarger) (3)
- 02: “Magic” Apple Mouse (2)
January 2011 (7)
- 28: Profiles in Human Factors: Dr. Ron Shapiro (3)
- 25: Profiles in Human Factors: Dr. Julian Sanchez, Medtronic (1)
- 24: New Series: Profiles in Human Factors (3)
- 18: Book Giveaway Winners (0)
- 10: Designing Displays for Older Adults: Chapter 4 Cognition (excerpt) (3)
- 10: Usability vs. Providing an Experience (4)
- 04: Kitchen Taskonomy Part 1: A Guest Post by Kim Wolfinbarger (6)
December 2010 (8)
- 29: Designing Displays for Older Adults: Chapter 3 Hearing (excerpt) (2)
- 18: Win a copy of Designing Displays for Older Adults (4)
- 16: Age-related differences in the use of the Internet (1)
- 09: The Elusive Moodle! (4)
- 07: “Having the Data is not enough” – Visualization Techniques (3)
- 03: Online Map Readability: A Comparison (0)
- 03: Children and Medication Errors – “Thanks, Mom and Dad!” (1)
- 01: Accidental Activation During Seat Adjustment on Plane (1)
November 2010 (7)
- 23: Reminder: Proposals due for APA 2011 on Dec. 1st! (1)
- 21: Blogging APA Division 21: “One Thing at a Time” (but over a really long time) (0)
- 15: Redesigning the airline boarding pass (4)
- 11: Wishing Everyone a Usable Day (1)
- 04: Color Coded Elevator Buttons – Wow! (5)
- 02: More usability in the news: CAPS LOCK OFF ON STREET SIGNS (1)
- 01: Was it the interface? (1)
October 2010 (5)
- 29: Call for Papers! APA 2011 in Washington D.C. (0)
- 26: Microsoft’s Kinect Game Controller (0)
- 25: The Ultimate Driving Simulator (4)
- 20: Furniture-flavored Pancakes (0)
- 04: Afford-door-ances (0)
September 2010 (7)
- 30: Keep up with the madness (1)
- 23: ATM Alarms and Signal Detection Theory (4)
- 20: HFES Madness–There’s still time! (0)
- 20: HF Potpourri (0)
- 03: Impending Disasters Announced Via Computer (1)
- 02: 11 feet 8 inches (5)
- 01: “Clomiphene” vs. “Clomipramine” (0)
August 2010 (11)
- 27: Blogging APA Division 21: The Cost of Automation Failure (1)
- 25: Too standardized? – The problem of tube identification in hospitals (2)
- 23: Blogging APA Division 21: You’re Looking Harmless Today (1)
- 19: Blogging APA Division 21: Maximizing Stimulus-Response Compatibility (1)
- 18: Designing Displays for Older Adults: Chapter 1 (excerpt) (17)
- 16: Blogging APA Division 21: “Who are we?” (how did we get here, and who do we want to be?) (0)
- 15: Blogging APA Division 21 (0)
- 09: Code Chartreuse – “Too many codes” (5)
- 06: The Zero-Fatality Car (3)
- 05: Ergonomic Advice from Star Trek (0)
- 02: Human Factors and Ergonomics Madness (0)
July 2010 (7)
- 26: BMW Radio: “WHAT CODE! Where do I find the CODE?!” (0)
- 20: Almost Here: Designing Displays for Older Adults (6)
- 20: Unusable Signs – Biking (1)
- 16: The Human Factors of Weapons (8)
- 15: Mining Tragedy Update (0)
- 12: Human Factors and Health care: Tackling Inefficiencies (3)
- 02: Usability Potpourri (2)
June 2010 (7)
- 29: Update on an Academic’s Use of the iPad (7)
- 28: Don Norman’s 10 Rules for Successful Products (11)
- 28: Glass Shower Doors (1)
- 25: The Human Factors of Rock Climbing – A matter of life and death (5)
- 23: Usability Potpourri (1)
- 22: Summer-itis! (1)
- 09: Contact lens solution safety can be a complex if-then task (4)
May 2010 (5)
- 25: iPad is everything the Kindle isn’t (for my use cases) (33)
- 13: Users: Are they the people using the towels or the people replacing the towels? (2)
- 08: Facebook and Privacy: A Guest Post by Kelly Caine (5)
- 04: “Human Factors” mentioned in NYT article referring to massive oil spill (2)
- 03: Evil Interfaces (3)
April 2010 (5)
- 27: Situation Awareness Issue? (1)
- 22: Facetted Navigation Primer (3)
- 21: Driving, texting, and eating? (6)
- 15: Trust & Electronic Medical Records (3)
- 01: Online Banking Should Be Easier for Seniors (2)
March 2010 (12)
- 22: Soft Keyboard: Smart Idea or Incredibly Frustrating? (5)
- 22: Stirring the pot… with a saw (0)
- 17: “Sully” Sullenberger to Speak at the HFES 2010 Conference (1)
- 15: Personas & Windows Phone 7; Apple Mouse Fix (1)
- 12: Doctors Visits Decrease With Electronic Health Records/E-mail (3)
- 11: Exit Signs Across Cultures (2)
- 08: Complex Clickers in Class (5)
- 08: HF Potpourri (0)
- 04: Human Factors Blog @ SXSW (0)
- 04: Making virtual worlds more accessible – a new context area for Human Factors (6)
- 01: HF and Medical Device Workshop (again) in April 2010 (0)
- 01: UXURLS: A usability news aggregator (2)
February 2010 (8)
- 25: Careers in Human Factors & Aging (4)
- 10: Redesigning Toyota’s Keyless Ignition System (3)
- 08: Visual Search and Airport Security Screening (2)
- 05: Dissecting the iPad’s User Interface (1)
- 04: HF Graduate Programs: North Carolina State University (2)
- 03: The Spatial Demands of Assembly Instructions (1)
- 02: This does not bode well for the on-device user experience… (2)
- 01: Similar Medical Bottles Strike Again: Flu Shots and Insulin (0)
January 2010 (13)
- 27: Keyless Ignition in Emergencies: Do you know what to do? (4)
- 26: HF Graduate Programs: Clemson University (7)
- 24: Design & HF Potpourri (1)
- 22: 3D is better than 2D, right? (1)
- 20: Environmental Controls: Spotlight on Volvo (6)
- 12: Ahem…your heart has stopped (3)
- 11: Tabs, tabs, and more tabs… (3)
- 08: Pain Scale Emoticons (2)
- 07: Publically Available Databases for Research (0)
- 06: HF Potpourri (1)
- 05: Blog is 99% recovered (1)
- 05: Database failure–we’ll be back shortly (1)
- 03: Distracted Driving: The Experience (5)
December 2009 (17)
- 20: Vision-themed Potpourri (2)
- 19: Encouraging Sanitary Behavior at the Urinal (1)
- 17: Database Three: Mining safety data (0)
- 15: Database Two: Aviation safety data (0)
- 14: Human Factors in the World’s First “Purpose-Built” Law Enforcement Vehicle (2)
- 14: HF Potpourri (1)
- 11: Pssssst! Free occupational safety data! (2)
- 10: Data visualization tools (3)
- 10: Human Factors and Healthcare: The older patient & nurse (6)
- 09: Medication Adherence Case Study (1)
- 08: Smells like more potpourri (1)
- 07: The Toyota Saga Continues… (0)
- 04: Usability/Design/HF Potpourri (1)
- 03: Web-based tool to measure task workload (3)
- 02: Driving and Writing: Audi MMI (1)
- 02: HFBlog at HFES 2009 in San Antonio (0)
- 01: Healthcare IT does not save money, increase efficiency (3)
November 2009 (7)
- 24: Dangers of Automatic Windows (2)
- 20: Solving Beer Estimation Difficulties (4)
- 13: Graph extravaganza: Who are our “users”? (1)
- 10: HFES Conference Part 6: Health & Human Factors (1)
- 06: Human Factors vs. Bugs – Somebody stop my Toyota! (0)
- 04: HFES Conference Part 5: Automation & Trust & Google Maps (1)
- 03: HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 4 – Hearing and Understanding (2)
October 2009 (5)
- 29: HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 3 – Health/Internet…and ROBOTS! (0)
- 28: Bad Design: Mouse mode and feedback (2)
- 27: HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 2 – Eliciting Knowledge Structures (1)
- 24: HFES Conference in San Antonio, Part 1 (2)
- 15: Error Leads to Radiation Overdose (6)
September 2009 (6)
- 28: Results of long-term educational use of Kindle (5)
- 25: STFU Usability Protocol (1)
- 19: “Replicants are like any other machine – they’re either a benefit or a hazard. If they’re a benefit, it’s not my problem.” (0)
- 16: Consequences of Mobile Phone Usability…big consequences (6)
- 13: Redesigning the Homeland Security Warnings (1)
- 08: Usability issues in navigating your life (4)
August 2009 (7)
- 31: Developing the “science of error measurement” (3)
- 28: HF/Usability Hodgepodge (0)
- 19: Two HF Driving News Articles (0)
- 17: HF Potpourri (0)
- 12: Fitts’ Law and Your Microwave (1)
- 11: Consumer Reports story on Automobile Ergonomics (4)
- 04: 911: Trying to fight slips via warnings (0)
July 2009 (11)
- 30: A Blind Person’s Interactions With Technology (0)
- 23: Politics and Research: Driver Distraction (0)
- 18: Ford’s Use of Personas in Design (1)
- 17: When Users Complain: Blackboard (6)
- 16: Augmented Reality for Everyone (3)
- 16: Population Trends: Age (0)
- 13: Time.com article on Anne’s research with Games & Aging (3)
- 06: Is Older Adult Interest in the Wii Interface Just Hype?: or “I want to try bowling” (3)
- 02: New Interface for Online Banking (1)
- 02: The Tactile Thinkpad: More Laptop Redesign from Lenovo (0)
- 01: Behind the scenes look at “Playtesting” games (2)
June 2009 (14)
- 30: Heatmapping the Keyboard (1)
- 26: HF/Usability Potpourri (0)
- 18: Smartphones as Event-based Prospective Memory Aids (2)
- 17: (face) Gestures Interface (1)
- 16: Electric Scooters and their Warnings: A Guest Post by Kim Wolfinbarger (6)
- 12: Applied Decision Making Aids in the News (1)
- 11: Invisible Lines and Laundry Detergent (2)
- 10: Watch out for Un-Equalsteppings! (0)
- 10: Emergency Checklists and Aviation (0)
- 09: Bad Astronomy on Usability (0)
- 08: Cannot be Undone (double negatives on iphone) (4)
- 01: Can you hear me now? Why yes, I can! (1)
- 01: Infographics Galore! (1)
- 01: Solution for ATM glare (5)
May 2009 (4)
- 22: Book: Designing for Older Adults, 2nd edition (2)
- 14: Acoustic Information from Basketball Courts (3)
- 12: Accidental Activation Activates Fighter Jet Escort (2)
- 01: Map Information Visualizations = HOT! (5)
April 2009 (6)
- 24: Danger at the Dining Hall! (1)
- 23: Human Factors Potpourri (again) (1)
- 15: HF/Design/Usability Potpourri from around the Web (1)
- 10: Human Factors & Medical Device Workshop (2)
- 10: Dashboards meet the 21st century (5)
- 01: 911! I’m Locked In My Car…Oh, Pull Lock? Thanks (2)
March 2009 (6)
- 26: The $12,000 Design Mistake (4)
- 24: “Internet radio so simple that even an old, stupid idiot can use it” (0)
- 23: Consumer RFID technology–The Mirror by Violet (1)
- 05: “Smart” devices may help dementia sufferers remember to shut off stove, live at home longer (1)
- 02: Lighting up the lives of the elderly – adaptively (0)
- 01: In 2019 I will be 44… (0)
February 2009 (6)
- 25: Quick note: Usability of Electronic Health Records (3)
- 18: The Human Factors “elevator speech” (8)
- 16: It’s Right There, Right on your Left (0)
- 10: Google PowerMeter (0)
- 04: High-tech Grandma (0)
- 02: No More “Reply All” at Marketing Company (4)
January 2009 (14)
- 27: History of Multi-touch Research (Bill Buxton) (1)
- 26: Game Players as Future Warriors (0)
- 25: Usability of Electronic Health Records (13)
- 23: Usability Affects Use: Police make fewer arrests due to struggling with software (0)
- 21: Crowdsourced Usability II: Mozilla Test Pilot (0)
- 21: Return of the Checklist! (0)
- 20: You can now follow us on Twitter (1)
- 19: Milk Jug Usability (7)
- 16: Rethinking the Hotel Closet (1)
- 14: User Perception of Automobile Brands (0)
- 12: 1960′s Human Factors : The Titan II Missiles (3)
- 09: Terrifying Telephones (4)
- 08: How does one get into Human Factors? (3)
- 05: Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit (0)
December 2008 (4)
- 12: Who Watches the Watchers? (2): Self-cleaning Ovens (1)
- 10: The Mouse turns 40 (1)
- 08: Podcast: Design for the Real World (Studio 360) (0)
- 02: Patient photos aid docs reading faceless CT scans – Yahoo! News (0)
November 2008 (7)
- 29: Personalized User Interfaces (1)
- 26: Interface aid for hyper-milers (3)
- 25: Crowdsourced Usability Testing? (2)
- 25: Where are visitors coming from? (0)
- 18: StickySorter from Office Labs (0)
- 13: Feedback is a valuable brand “differentiator” for mobile phones (0)
- 05: Who Watches the Watchers? (0)
October 2008 (11)
- 29: A Timely Article on Voting Machines (2)
- 27: Amazon Windowshop (1)
- 26: Smart Cars (0)
- 24: Joe the Plumber as a Persona (0)
- 12: Dear Marriott, Snail Mail is Not the Internet (3)
- 08: Another tool to keep up with election news (2)
- 06: Homeland security warnings (0)
- 06: Digital TV Transition will be rocky for some (2)
- 03: The VP Debates: An Adventure in Clutter (3)
- 02: Parking garage ticket machine warning (0)
- 01: More blurred lines between slaking and slaying (4)
September 2008 (15)
- 29: Older adults prefer less choice than younger adults (1)
- 27: Hospital Bracelets Face Hurdles as They Fix Hazard – NYTimes.com (3)
- 26: Infovis in the Debates (3)
- 25: Live… from New York, it’s HFES! (0)
- 16: Mac-based usability testing software: Silverback (0)
- 12: Pew Internet: Use of Cloud Computing Applications and Services (3)
- 12: “Science of fun”; User testing the game Spore (4)
- 11: Visualizing election news (2)
- 10: Text Input in a Mobile World (0)
- 10: Tag-based interfaces and Aging (0)
- 09: Everything in, Garbage out! (0)
- 06: Vigilante Warnings (1)
- 03: Google Chrome: Incognito (0)
- 03: (too) Minimalist design (6)
- 01: Infographics in Movies (1)
August 2008 (7)
- 26: You are what you eat (And I’m about a B-) (2)
- 25: Electronic Books–A Human Factors perspective (6)
- 24: Inner and Outer Outed (0)
- 22: Getting Ready for November – Ballot Designs (0)
- 19: Hospital’s Design Keeps Fresh Air in Mind – NYTimes.com (0)
- 06: The Future of Web Browsing (0)
- 04: With automated tagging, Web links can surprise (0)
July 2008 (6)
- 20: Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web – Yahoo News (0)
- 11: This Human Factors Problem Should Be History By Now (1)
- 11: Chemicals all look the same (0)
- 09: Interesting traffic signs (0)
- 02: Driving and Talking in California (0)
- 01: In Praise of a Good Interface (1)
June 2008 (8)
- 30: Human Factors Journal Celebrates 50 Years With Special Issue Highlighting Pivotal Research and Applications (0)
- 24: Filed under: I can’t believe there needs to be a warning for this… (0)
- 17: Scenes Of Nature Trump Technology In Reducing Low-level Stress (0)
- 16: Primary Sources for Safety (0)
- 10: Human Factors Special Issue (0)
- 10: Facebook for grandma? (0)
- 09: Some progress in ATM interface design (0)
- 06: Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing Workplace Interruption (0)
May 2008 (7)
- 25: High-Tech Devices Keep Elderly Safe From Afar – NYTimes.com (1)
- 21: Memory Loss – Aging – Alzheimers Disease – Aging Brains Take In More Information, Studies Show – Health – New York Times (0)
- 21: Processing negatives (0)
- 21: Court Says Dollar Design Discriminates Against Blind : NPR (0)
- 14: On Reality TV, Less Sleep Means More Drama : NPR (2)
- 13: Nagging via text messages to help teens remember meds (0)
- 06: Overcoming the big downside of tagging (2)
April 2008 (7)
- 25: Ergonomics for kids (0)
- 23: Report: OLPC may eventually switch from Linux to Windows XP (2)
- 22: Trust in Automation (6)
- 19: A suit that simulates the physical effects of aging used by Nissan (2)
- 18: Senior-friendly mobile phone (3)
- 03: Back to pencil and paper for 2010 census – CNN.com (1)
- 02: Changing behavior via awareness of energy consumption (1)
March 2008 (7)
- 31: John Wayne, United Airways, and Human Factors (3)
- 26: Educational (low-priced) laptops and cross-cultural Human Factors (6)
- 23: Life imitates art (Nissan GT-R) (3)
- 20: Response to “Paper Kills” (2)
- 17: Usability and Signing up for Campus Safety Alerts (1)
- 15: Death from Branding (9)
- 07: Unusually quiet morning radio show (0)
February 2008 (5)
- 22: That’s what I call paper prototyping! (0)
- 19: Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes (0)
- 14: Unintended consequences of technology (more automation induced problems) (0)
- 14: Pew Internet report on mobile internet privacy (0)
- 07: The Double-Bubble Ballot (0)
January 2008 (10)
- 25: Welcoming the Fireproof Elevator (0)
- 25: Tufte on the iPhone (0)
- 25: Electronic voting machines and misconceptions… (1)
- 18: ‘Mind-reading’ car keeps drivers focused (0)
- 18: Surgeons Hone Skills on Nintendo Wii (0)
- 14: Automation, Consumer Products, and Energy Usage (0)
- 12: 50th Anniversary of the Eames Lounge Chair (0)
- 11: “Continuous partial attention” vs. Multi-tasking (0)
- 03: Too much trust in automation… (0)
- 03: USNews Best Careers in 2008: User experience specialist (0)
December 2007 (9)
- 18: “Why Nobody Likes a Smart Machine” (0)
- 13: “Domestic products bad designs are out of control” (0)
- 13: Google and the Mind (0)
- 12: Military training via video games (0)
- 12: Wacky Warning Label Winners (1)
- 10: NPR covers a good bit of the HF field in one conversation with two doctors (5)
- 07: Design out, Guard, then Warn (5)
- 06: Intuition vs Experience with Roundabouts (0)
- 03: First Responders Charity (0)
November 2007 (9)
- 30: Facebook privacy issue may be a usability issue? (2)
- 29: Why Human Factors is more than providing safety equipment (0)
- 29: Team Training (0)
- 27: Legal Interpretations can be the Bane of Good Human Factors (1)
- 26: More medical errors–Operating on the wrong side of the patient’s brain! (3)
- 24: Patient record mistakes (0)
- 16: “From the Doctor’s Brain to the Patient’s Vein” (1)
- 15: Eye-tracking in web design (0)
- 09: Warning compliance (0)
October 2007 (3)
- 31: “Set Phasers on Stun” still relevant in healthcare industry (1)
- 30: Another precient post (0)
- 29: Shopping on the internet (0)
September 2007 (9)
- 25: The Cadillac of Human Factors (0)
- 25: iphone usability (3)
- 11: Fast Food Wednesday (1)
- 11: input device silliness… (0)
- 11: automation gone wrong… (0)
- 09: never blame the user… (0)
- 08: Keeping the Hum-or in Hum-an Factors (0)
- 07: Card sorting in the press (0)
- 07: The New Field of Unmanned Aircraft (0)

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