The Human Factor
Revolutionizing the Way We Live with Technology
What links the frustrations of daily life, like VCR clocks and voicemail systems, to airplane crashes and a staggering “hidden epidemic” of medical error?
Kim Vicente is a professor of human factors engineering at the University of Toronto and a consultant to NASA, Microsoft, Nortel Networks and many other organizations; he might also be described as a “technological anthropologist.” He spends his time in emergency rooms, airplane cockpits and nuclear power station control rooms -- as well as in kitchens, garages and bathrooms -- observing how people interact with technology.
In the first chapter of The Human Factor, Kim Vicente sets out the disturbing pattern he’s observed: from daily life…
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July 27, 2004
“Kim Vicente puts human simplicity into technology.”
—Time Magazine
A leading expert in his field, Kim Vicente is a professor of engineering at the University of Toronto, founding Director of the Cognitive Engineering Laboratory, and a senior fellow of Massey College. He was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT from 2002 to 2003.
In 1999 Kim Vicente was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of 25 Canadians under the age of 40 as a “Leader for the 21st Century who will shape Canada’s Future.” In 2002, he became the first engineer ever to receive the $100,000 McLean Award, the University of Toronto's wealthiest and most prestigious prize for outstanding research. Further recognition came in 2003 when he was awarded a…
