• Make it Better: Designing Out Medical Error
Make It Better is an exhibition of designs for the clinical environment aimed at reducing medical error.
Date / Time: Tuesday 31 January - Saturday 04 February
Venue: Qvist Gallery, Hunterian Museum.
• "Being resilient to human error: Don't end up with pie on your face!"
As part of UCL's bitesize lunchtime lectures series Dom Furniss will be giving a short talk about his work on resilient strategies.
Date / Time: 9 March 2012
Venue: Richard Mully Basement, UCL Lewis's Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
More details from the CHI+MED blog.
• "Numbers, Numbers Everywhere, and None you can Trust - Not Yet!" - Cardiff Scientific Society
Date / Time: 30 November 2011
Venue:
Large Chemistry Lecture Theatre, Cardiff University.
More details from Cardiff Scientific Society's pages.
Professor Harold Thimbleby will be giving a public lecture wtih a CHI+MED theme in Cardiff on 30 November 2011. His talk will consider the unreliability of numbers in a range of contexts, how this can cause serious problems and what some solutions might be.
• Lunch Hour Lecture: When technology design provokes errors - UCL
Date / Time: 1.15pm, Thursday 3 November 2011
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre (via Malet Place), UCL, Gower St, London. WC1E 6BT
More details from UCL's events pages.
To mark World Usability Day Professor Ann Blandford gave the Lunch Hour Lecture on the ways in which design can make errors more, or less, likely to occur. You can watch a video of the lecture here, or view in the embedded player below.
• Researchers' Night - Queen Mary, University of London
Date / Time: 3pm - 9pm, Friday 23 September 2011
Venue: Queen Mary, University of London (Mile End and Whitechapel sites - Professor McOwan's show will be on at the Mile End campus) E1 4NS
More details from the CHI+MED blog.
An afternoon and evening of events for the family which will be taking place at two sites on the Queen Mary campus. There will be a mixture of science, art and performance and plenty of opportunity to take part in experiments and meet researchers. CHI+MED scientists will be there including Professor Peter McOwan who will be presenting a computer science-themed magic show that illustrates some of the insights gleaned from research in psychology and human-computer interaction.
• Avoiding death by computer
Date/Time: 28 September 2009, 6pm
Venue: Barnard's Inn Hall
One of the reasons why people make mistakes is that the systems they use are badly designed, and this is perhaps nowhere more alarming than in hospital errors involving drug delivery systems. This talk by Prof Harold Thimbleby reviews a well-documented, but otherwise typical, fatality and shows that many causes could be prevented by better design, and better programming in particular. You can watch the video here, or view in the embedded player below.
Harold Thimbleby is Emeritus Gresham Professor
of Geometry and a Royal Society-Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow at Swansea
University.