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Author Day, Ronald William

Title Design Error : a Human Factors Approach
Published Milton : CRC Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (113 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Author; Chapter 1 Design Error & Can Models Help?; Dominoes Are Falling: Queensland Health Payroll Fiasco; Swiss Cheese Anyone? Zanthus Bypass Accident; Systems Flying High: Mt Erebus Disaster; Random Clusters Model: Government Home Insulation Program; Chaos Reigns: Melbourne's West Gate Bridge Collapse; Chapter 2 Common Causes of Design Error; Value of User Situational Knowledge; Clients Are Part of the Problem; Too Much Reliance on Client Documentation; User Interface or Usability Issues
Design ConstraintsOpen-Cut Mine Radar Solution; Walking the Tightrope; Unsafe Army Vehicle; Chapter 3 Who Is the Designer?; How Does a Designer Create a New Design?; Intuition; Designing Style; Problem-Solving Methods and Conceptual Strategies; Designer Profile; Demographics; Design Error Occurrence; Systems Development Life Cycle Model Chosen; Conceptual Strategies; Concerns; User-Centred Design; Designer Profile Items; Chapter 4 What Is the Design Process?; Design Concept Formation; Writing Specifications; Building the Design; Testing; Implementation; Training; Maintaining
If a Design Meets the Specifications, Can It Contain Errors?The Many Faces of the Design Process; Chapter 5 Systems Development Life Cycle Models; Traditional Models; Waterfall Model; V-Model; Incremental Model; Evolutionary Model; Spiral Model; Prototyping; Adaptive Models; Agile; Rapid Application Development; Joint Application Design; Extreme Programming; Lean Software Development; Scrum; Chapter 6 Choosing an SDLC & Which Cap to Wear?; When to Wear a RED CAP; When You Cannot Meet the End Users; When to Wear a BLUE CAP; When to Wear a YELLOW CAP; Avoiding Project Creep
YELLOW CAP Futures: Continuous AgileOrganic Model: A New Look at the Design Process; Chapter 7 Where Do Design Errors Occur in the Design Process?; Design Concept Issues; Writing Specifications; Building the Design; Testing; Implementation; Training; Maintaining; Paradise Lost; Chapter 8 Human Factors Issues; User Interface Design; Computer Interface Errors; Non-Computer Errors; Associated Business Process Errors; End-User Profile; Demographics; Design Error Occurrence; Problems Experienced; Participative Design; Concerns; Comparison of Designer and End-User Profiles
Chapter 9 Automation & Persistence of a MythHuman Cost of Automation; Complexity; Complexity in Action; Measuring Complexity; And the Problem Is?; Three Reasons For the Advance of Automation; Two Social Impacts of Automation; Airbus A320 Crash; Driverless Monorail Train Crash; Rail Crash in Spain; Future Directions in Automation; Changing Lifestyles; Internet of Things; An Early M2M System; Target Was Targeted; Problems with Medical Devices; Stuxnet; Chapter 10 How Artificial Is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?; Has AI Always Existed?; Alan Turing, the Father of Modern-Day Machine Intelligence
Summary This book shows how to identify potential design errors and modify procedures in the design process to mitigate design-induced error. Real life examples are used to demonstrate the points being made. Many of the concerns raised in the book have come from a worldwide study conducted with designers, managers, and end-users
Notes Knowledge-Based Systems
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Design -- Human factors.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Health & Safety.
Design -- Human factors
Form Electronic book
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