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Title: | Forensics cases highlight human variability in product use | Authors: | Peacock, B. | Keywords: | court decisions design design trade-offs forensics latent failures operations |
Issue Date: | Jul-2012 | Citation: | Peacock, B. (2012-07). Forensics cases highlight human variability in product use. Ergonomics in Design 20 (3) : 19-22. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1177/1064804612445007 | Abstract: | In this article, I present six forensics human factors/ergonomics cases that are typical of many situations in which the defendant had no intent to harm the plaintiff and the plaintiff made a (perhaps foreseeable) mistake. Human factors/ergonomics arguments on both sides delved into the latent hazards associated with the product or system design and operation. In some of the cases, the design decision was made for a reasonable purpose, but the safety trade-off was either not considered or simply ignored. In other cases, the "victim" did not behave as intended but did behave in a foreseeable way. © 2012 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. | Source Title: | Ergonomics in Design | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/125113 | ISSN: | 10648046 | DOI: | 10.1177/1064804612445007 |
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