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CS4FN Issue 17
This edition of Computer Science for Fun examines how computer science has improved the safety of medicine and hospitals and how accidents have happened in the past. The articles include:
• Therac-25 cancer therapy – safety-critical applications
• Programming magic tricks
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) studies in healthcare
• Reducing mistakes during handovers in F1 and operating theatres – saving lives with a Computer Science approach
• Redundancy in software design where safety is critical
• Anthropology – watching people to improve computer systems
• Knowledge-based errors and slip-errors – innovative design to prevent accidents
• Learning from near-misses
• Microwave races – a HCI challenge
• Improving systems to reduce mistakes
• Making a ‘human harp’ with sensors attached to a bridge
• HCI experiments focused on how we input numbers
• Seven segment displays and the upside down problem
• Health gadgets
The magazine is edited by Paul Curzon, Jo Brodie and Peter W. McOwan
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