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- When technology design provokes errors
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When technology design provokes errors
10 November 2011
Thursday 3 November 2011
Professor Ann Blandford (UCL Interaction Centre)
Did you ever forget your chip & pin card in a card reader? Leave the original on a photocopier? Send an email to the wrong person from your address book? The way technology is designed can make errors more or less likely. Most everyday examples are just annoying; if a pilot or a nurse makes similar errors in the course of their work, the consequences can be much more serious. This talk discusses some of the causes of these errors and how the design of technology can provoke or mitigate them.
This
lecture marks World Usability Day on 10 Nov 2011
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