During the second world war, the United States lost hundreds of planes in accidents that…
Category: Human Factors/Ergonomics
This is the fourth in a series of posts on different ‘kinds’ of human factors, as understood both within and outside the discipline and profession of human factors and ergonomics itself. This post explores a fourth kind of human factors: Socio-technical system interaction.
This third post explores another perspective on ‘human factors’: Factors Affecting Humans.
This second post in a series on Four Kinds of ‘Human Factors’ explores another kind of human factors: Factors of Humans.
This is the first of a short blog post series, on four kinds of ‘Human Factors’: ‘The Human Factor.
The text in this post is from the Editorial of HindSight magazine, Issue 25, on…
It was always going to happen. The wrong Best Picture winner was read out live on…
It has variously been described as “an incredible and almost unbelievable gaffe” (Radio Times), “the greatest mistake in Academy Awards history” (Telegraph), “an extraordinary blunder…an unprecedented error” (ITV News), “the most spectacular blunder in the history of the starry ceremony” and “the most awkward, embarrassing Oscar moment of all time: an extraordinary failure” (Guardian). It was, of course, the Grand Finale of the Oscars 2017.
This is the seventh in a series of posts on The Archetypes of Human Work, on the Defunct archetype.
This is the sixth in a series of posts on The Archetypes of Human Work, on the P.R. and Subterfuge archetype.