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April 17, 2006 Volume 15 No. 8

Who's in Charge: Mankind or Machine?
Human Factors Analysis Studies Interactions Between People and Machines

Stan lies on the operating table, his eyes staring up at the bright lights above him. His chest rises and falls, the monitor next to him displays his heart rate, his pupils shrink and dilate when a shadow moves over his face.

“How are you feeling, sir?” asks the doctor, gently shaking his arm. The response, when it comes, doesn’t come from the patient’s lips. It comes from a nearby speaker --Stan’s voice is actually that of the...

Putting the Human into High Tech: Melanie Wright, Ph.D., human factors engineer, studies how caregivers interact with the medical technology that surrounds them each day. She is pictured here with Stan, a computerized patient simulator, used to train caregivers to provide safer, more effective care.

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