Challenges and paradoxes of human factors in health technology design

JMIR Human Factors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Morita, Plinio P ^a   Cafazzo, Joseph A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equipment design; Task performance and analysis; Workflow; Workload

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042189381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22929495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/humanfactors.4653     Document Type: Review

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