• Read the article or get it from the ACM SIGCHI site.
• Try the iPhone webapp.
• Watch a movie of an improved general purpose calculator ... or get more details.
• Get a PDF poster about the drug dose calculator.
• Read the Canadian Institute for Safe Medication Practices PDF report, Fluorouracil Incident Root Cause Analysis, 2007 and a quick summary.
• Watch a digital story about the design of a syringe pump.

Reasons to question seven segment displays

Read the draft article (to appear in ACM CHI)

Watch the interesting US Institute of Safe Medication Practices video on a now obsolete insulin pen — which had problems as highlighted in Thimbleby’s video and article. (It looks like the manufacturers decided to stop making the consumables so the Opticlik naturally became obsolete; this would certainly have been better PR than a recall.)

Saving lives by design

See it at YouTube: http://youtu.be/glwtlH0oYc0

Problems with a syringe pump

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Recent related articles by Harold Thimbleby

• User-centered methods are insufficient for safety critical systems

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• Interaction walkthrough: Evaluation of safety critical interactive systems

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• Applying graph theory to interaction design

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• Press On: Principles of Interaction Programming (MIT Press, 2007)

  My award winning book!