We are designing the dashboard of a city bus that has a head-up display. Some visual information presented to the driver includes a high level of fine detail that the driver must see and resolve to interact with the system. Where should this information be presented to the driver? 

A pilot flying at night over the ocean is becoming confused about her orientation in space. She cannot see any lights or visual signals from land and due to clouds, there is no moon or starlight. Her instruments tell her she is in a turn to the right, but she is positive that she is flying straight and level. What is most likely happening to this pilot? 

Why is it important to use the usability heuristic of consistency and standards?

Consider mandatory vs. discretionary use of systems. Which of the following is true about mandatory use and how it impacts expertise? 

Consider the following sequence: X F D U. How many perceptual chunks is this? 

Engineers create a patient management system to be used in operating rooms; the purpose of the patient management system is to reduce human error in tasks such as medication errors, order of operations during surgery, and exposing patients to common allergens such as latex and penicillin. The system is installed in a hospital in Charlotte, NC. Under normal conditions, the system works well, but if physicians need to edit the patient details, they often have trouble making the edits correctly. In one procedure, a physician accidently put in the wrong weight when reprogramming the computer and nearly gave a patient a lethal dose of medication. From a systems perspective, what has most likely happened? 

We are going to test the effects of brightness of traffic signal bulbs on driver perception of traffic signals. We’d like to test the existing design as well as four additional levels of brightness. What is the best experimental design for this setting? 

When conducting a cost benefit analysis to justify a human factors analysis, which of the following would NOT be a good justification focus? 

We discussed several types of analyses that are important when we are designing or redesigning a product/system. Analyzing how to distribute tasks between our human operators and any technology/automation by evaluating the basic functions that must be performed tends to happen in what type of analysis? 

Why is a holistic perspective (systems thinking) important to human-centered design?