Visual Expert Human Factors: Slide2 Typical Cases

1. General Information
2. Typical Cases
3. Why Visual Expert?
4. Why Not Visual Expert?
5. Why Human Factors?
6. End of Tour: Links To Details.

Road & Rail Accidents

Whether the reflective tape would make the truck more conspicuous;

Whether the driver should have seen the road construction worker;

Whether driver should have seen a pedestrian in time to avoid accident;

Whether driver could have seen rail-highway crossing warnings;

Whether driver's reaction time was reasonable;

Whether a driver should have seen road signs and signals;

Whether vision of older driver contributed pedestrian knock down;

Whether objects on car dashboard impaired vision;

Whether driver's visual impairment contributed a fatal traffic collision;

Whether driver should have seen trailer blocking roadway at night; and

Whether a driver properly controlled steering around a curve.

Product Defects

Whether lack of off-throttle steering caused a personal watercraft collision;

Whether a chemical sprayer was properly designed.

Whether a a safety lock on a piece of equipment was properly designed.

Whether failure to test restraint of child car seats contributed to a death; and

Whether design of a fast fryer appliance contributed to a severe burn.

Warning

Whether a drug label served as an adequate warning;

Whether the safety warning on a gun was adequate;

Whether beach signs were adequate warning;

Whether "no diving signs" would affect behavior;

Whether the dangers of asbestos were foreseeable;

Whether an auditory backup warning could have prevented a forklift accident;

Whether a warning could have prevented an industrial accident;

Whether the warning on lighter fluid was adequate; and

Whether a better helmet warning would have prevented a spinal injury.

Trip & fall

Whether lighting conditions contributed to a fall down stairs;

Whether an elderly woman could have been expected to avoid a trip and fall;

Whether pattern on stairs contributed to a fall;

Whether light was adequate for an elderly man to a avoid tripping on a curb; and

What factors contributed to a fall down a steep slope.

Intellectual Property

Whether the color of drug pills could be trademarked;

Whether colors used in plaintiff's tradedress were functional;

Whether packaging imitated tradedress of a competitor; and

Whether consumers will use context to avoid trademark and name confusion.

Criminal & Police

Whether an eyewitness could accurately identify a suspect seen in dim light;

Whether a state trooper intended to hit a suspect with his car

Whether reaction time was sufficient to fire a rifle in fatal shooting;

Whether witness estimates of speed were reliable in a police chase;

Why a man congenital nystagmus flunked a sobriety test; and

Whether visibility was sufficient for police officers to perceive actions of a suspect in shooting.