An Impact Analysis Method for Safety-Critical User Interface Design

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 341-369

  Galliers, Julia ^a   Sutcliffe, Alistair ^b   Minocha, Shailey ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian Belief Networks; Design; human error; Human Factors; Reliability; safety critical; scenario based causal analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988832886     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/331490.331493     Document Type: Article

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