Validating task analysis for error identification: Reliability and validity of a human error prediction technique

Ergonomics

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1097-1113

  Stanton, Neville A ^a   Baber, Christopher ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human error; Methodology; Reliability; Sensitivity; Validity

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

ERROR IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN ERROR; TASK ANALYSIS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLOGY, INDUSTRIAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 27744498004     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130500219726     Document Type: Article

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