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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? 

Regarding timescales for various activities or actions, which of these activities has the longest timescale? 

Consider visual search & detection; do people always search a space in an organized manner? 

Accident prevention is a major goal of human factors engineering, but we rarely observe accidents directly. How do we analyze these events? 

As a result of _____________, the center of world banking shifted to New York City.

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? 

We discussed formative evaluation vs. summative evaluation; which type of evaluation relies on qualitative measures and helps us understand how people use a system and how the system might be improved? 

A 28 year old male presents to the office complaining of weakness on the right side of his face. His right eyebrow is drooping and he has a hard time closing it. Additionally, he is drooling from the right side of his mouth and is not able to smile evenly. He has no past medical history, his blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels are all within normal limits. He has no family history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia or coronary artery disease. Which nerve do you think is affected by his symptoms?

The ______ was the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen.

Elaborately decorated ____________ are a tradition in the Russian Orthodox Church.