Ignorance of interaction design is killing people

Resources to complement Harold Thimbleby's ACM Interactions article.

• Read the article about reducing errors in numerical input, and try the new user interface.
• Read the article about iPhone drug dose calculations.
• Try the iPhone webapp (or try the older version which has some known UI and arithmetic bugs: here — test your usability evaluation methods by comparing the two!).
• Watch a movie of an improved general purpose calculator ... or get more details.
• Get a PDF poster about the drug dose calculator.
• Read the Canadian Institute for Safe Medication Practices PDF report, Fluorouracil Incident Root Cause Analysis, 2007 and a quick summary.
• Explore the iPhone model checking tool or read the paper about it.
• Get a digital story about the design of a syringe pump — or watch the YouTube movie, below.
• Read the paper about the work on the syringe pump.