Sheep Dalton | The Open University - Academia.edu
I have just passed the 1000 profile view marks on academia.edu - you've got to celebrate these vanity metrics.
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Monday, June 30, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Oracle human error course of 45% of down time.
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/2012-ioug-db-survey-1695554.pdf ( 2012)
42% of errors from human administrator errors.
http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/ROC_TR02-1175.pdf
"A major observation from the field of human error research, labeled the Automation Irony, is that automation does not cure human error. The reasoning is that once designers realize that humans make errors, they often try to design a system that reduces human intervention. Automation usually addresses the easy tasks for humans, leaving to the operator the complex, rare tasks that were not successfully automated. Humans, who are not good at solving problems from first principles, are ill suited to such tasks, especially under stress. The irony is that automation reduces the chance for operators to get hands-on control experience, preventing them from building mental production rules and models for troubleshooting. Thus, automation often decreases system visibility, increases system complexity, and limits opportunities for interaction, all of which can make it harder for operators to use and make it more likely for them to make mistakes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_error
One of the most famous incidents of an aircraft disaster attributed to pilot error was the night time crash ofEastern Air Lines Flight 401 near Miami, Florida on December 29, 1972. The captain, first officer, and flight engineer had become fixated on a faulty landing gear light and had failed to realize that the flight controls had been bumped by one of the crew altering the autopilot settings from level flight to a slow descent. Told by ATC to hold over a sparsely populated area away from the airport while they dealt with the problem (with, as a result, very few lights on the ground visible to act as an external reference), the distracted flight crew did not notice the plane losing height and the aircraft eventually struck the ground in the Everglades, killing 101 out of 176 passengers and crew.
During 2004 in the United States, pilot error was listed as the primary cause of 78.6% of fatal general aviation accidents, and as the primary cause of 75.5% of general aviation accidents overall.[4] Forscheduled air transport, pilot error typically accounts for just over half of worldwide accidents with a known cause.[5]
42% of errors from human administrator errors.
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J. Gray. Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? Symposium on Reliability in Distributed
Software and Database Systems, 3–12, 1986.
"A major observation from the field of human error research, labeled the Automation Irony, is that automation does not cure human error. The reasoning is that once designers realize that humans make errors, they often try to design a system that reduces human intervention. Automation usually addresses the easy tasks for humans, leaving to the operator the complex, rare tasks that were not successfully automated. Humans, who are not good at solving problems from first principles, are ill suited to such tasks, especially under stress. The irony is that automation reduces the chance for operators to get hands-on control experience, preventing them from building mental production rules and models for troubleshooting. Thus, automation often decreases system visibility, increases system complexity, and limits opportunities for interaction, all of which can make it harder for operators to use and make it more likely for them to make mistakes.
Our lessons from human error research are that human operators will always be involved with systems
and that humans will make errors, even when they truly know what to do. The challenge is to design
systems that are synergistic with human operators, ideally giving operators a chance to familiarize
themselves with systems in a safe environment, and to correct their own errors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_error
One of the most famous incidents of an aircraft disaster attributed to pilot error was the night time crash ofEastern Air Lines Flight 401 near Miami, Florida on December 29, 1972. The captain, first officer, and flight engineer had become fixated on a faulty landing gear light and had failed to realize that the flight controls had been bumped by one of the crew altering the autopilot settings from level flight to a slow descent. Told by ATC to hold over a sparsely populated area away from the airport while they dealt with the problem (with, as a result, very few lights on the ground visible to act as an external reference), the distracted flight crew did not notice the plane losing height and the aircraft eventually struck the ground in the Everglades, killing 101 out of 176 passengers and crew.
During 2004 in the United States, pilot error was listed as the primary cause of 78.6% of fatal general aviation accidents, and as the primary cause of 75.5% of general aviation accidents overall.[4] Forscheduled air transport, pilot error typically accounts for just over half of worldwide accidents with a known cause.[5]
- 12 October 1997 – Singer John Denver died when his newly-bought Rutan Long-EZ home-built aircraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Pacific Grove, California. The NTSB indicated that Denver lost control of the aircraft while attempting to manipulate the fuel selector handle, which had been placed in a hard-to-reach position by the aircraft's builder. The NTSB cited his unfamiliarity with the aircraft's design as a cause of the crash.
- 4 August 2005 – the pilots of Helios Airways Flight 522 lost consciousness, most likely due to hypoxiacaused by failure to switch the cabin pressurization to "Auto" during the pre-flight preparations. TheBoeing 737-300 crashed after running out of fuel, killing all on board.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Visualizations Make Big Data Meaningful | June 2014 | Communications of the ACM
Visualizations Make Big Data Meaningful | June 2014 | Communications of the ACM
An interesting article on the ACM about the fusion of art and big data visualisation.
links to Googles DevArt ( a competition I think ).
https://devart.withgoogle.com/en#/about/
An interesting article on the ACM about the fusion of art and big data visualisation.
links to Googles DevArt ( a competition I think ).
https://devart.withgoogle.com/en#/about/
Friday, June 13, 2014
Milton Keynes trials city-wide public 'internet of things' network | Technology | The Guardian
Milton Keynes trials city-wide public 'internet of things' network | Technology | The Guardian
This appears to be mostly about digital monitoring of parking spaces and rubbish bins which sounds too be a quite viable idea. The Internet of things is dawning ( at least in Milton Keyens).
This appears to be mostly about digital monitoring of parking spaces and rubbish bins which sounds too be a quite viable idea. The Internet of things is dawning ( at least in Milton Keyens).
Digital carpets go main stream BBC News - Digital carpets
BBC News - Digital carpets: Can you spill water on them?: Desso has teamed up with Philips
Actually this is just a translucent carpet on a normal LED Matrix. If you look at the video you can see that the carpet is actually quite a thick platform.
see http://oro.open.ac.uk/38707/1/ITS140-Dalton%20(Preprint).pdf
Actually this is just a translucent carpet on a normal LED Matrix. If you look at the video you can see that the carpet is actually quite a thick platform.
see http://oro.open.ac.uk/38707/1/ITS140-Dalton%20(Preprint).pdf
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
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