Human Factors Pages

1. Visual Psychophysics, Perception, and Human Factors

• 33 Reasons For Not Seeing
• Determining Visibility: Contrast is Fundamental
• "Inattentional Blindness" & Conspicuity
• Night Vision
• Failure To See
• Twilight (3.3 lux) As A visibility Criterion
• The Seven Laws Of Attention
• Photographs vs. Reality*: Seeing Is Deceiving (With Application to Body Worn Cameras)
• Computer Animation has Perceptual Limitations
• Psychophysics: The Fundamental Science
• The Jumbo Jet Illusion
• Basic Color & Design SBFAQ: Introduction
• Basic Color & Design SBFAQ 1: Basic Terms & Definitions
• Basic Color & Design SBFAQ 2: Color Discrimination
• Basic Color & Design SBFAQ 3: Color Appearance
• Basic Color & Design SBFAQ 4: Color "Blindness"
• Basic Color & Design SBFAQ 5: Using Color Effectively
• Basic Color & Design SBFAQ 6: Color for Text & Sign Legibility
• Basic Color & Design SBFAQ 7: Color References

2. Perception-Reaction and Response

• Reaction Time
• Let's Get Real About Perception-Reaction Time
• Why PRT Is Not Like Gravity
• Perception-Reaction Time (PRT) Programs
• Takeover Time

3. Road and Rail Collisions

• A Crash Course In Collisions: The CBDR Rule
• Is The Moth-Effect Real?
• Accident Statistics on Driver Error: The 94% Myth
• Human Error in Road Accidents
• Which drivers are safest? You're in for a Surprise
• Weather and Accidents: Rain & Fog
• Accidents At Rail-Highway Crossings
• Underride Accidents
• Rear End Collision: Looming
• Cell Phone Distraction: A Cautionary Tale
• Understanding Human "Error": Fault Tolerance, Practical Drift And Traps

4. Pedestrians and Bicycles

• Seeing Pedestrians At Night
• Why Drivers Say "He Came Out Of Nowhere!"
• Why Pedestrians (and Bicyclists) Die
• Bicyclists! Read This To Save Your Life
• Why Are Pedestrian Fatalities Rising?
• Bicyclist Conspicuity Aids: Do They Work?
• Distracted Pedestrians and Bicyclists
• Bicyclists vs. Pedestrians

5. Self-Driving Cars

• Death By Uber 1: When Self-Driving Cars Kill
• Death By Uber 2: The Police Report
• Death By Uber 3: "Automation Complacency" Impairs "Drivers
• Death By Uber 4: The NTSB Report
• Takeover Time

6. Police Shooting and Criminal

• Perceptual Error in Police Shootings
• On Human Nature(s) 1: Orientation Toward Behavior
• On Human Nature(s) 2: System 1 vs. System 2
• On Human Nature(s) 3: Affordances, Heuristics and Biases, and Schemata
• On Human Nature(s) 4: Kopfkino, Predictive Coding, and Emotion
• On Human Nature(s) 5: Case Example and Conclusion
• Errors in Eyewitness Identification Procedures
• Eyewitness Memory Is Unreliable
• Human Factors In Forensic Evidence
• Photographs vs. Reality*: Seeing Is Deceiving (With Application to Body Worn Cameras)

7. Warnings, Error, and Safety

• Warnings and Warning Labels
• Warning Effectiveness Checklist
• The Psychology of Warnings
• Are Warnings Effective?
• Caution: Warnings Research Is Unreliable
• Safety Hierarchy: Design Vs. Warning
• Thinking Like A Human Factors Expert
• Why Is Safety So Hard?
• Now That's A Warning!
• The Law of Effect: From Pigeons to Smartphones

7a. Design Error


• Human Error Vs. Design Error;
• Product Misuse And "Affordances."



7b. Drug And Medical

• Medical Error: Good Design or Bad Design?
• Nursing Error
• Drugs, Adverse Effects & Warnings
• Computer & Medical Device Error

8. Scientific Thinking

• What is "Inattention?"
• From Research To The Real World
• Symptoms, Causes And Inferred Mental States
• DANMASK-19: Masks, Rorschach and Pascal
• Statistics and Science: The "Null Ritual"
• Think of the Children! The Reptiles vs The Mammals of Safety
• Survey Research

9. Intellectual Property

• "Any Fool Can See The Trademarks Are Different"
• Measuring Confusion For Intellectual Property
• Color in Trademark and Tradedress Disputes
• Color Functionality: A Case Example

10. Other

• Diving Accidents in Pools
• Falls Down Steps
• William Shakespeare: The lost Interview