Improving team situation awareness through interface design

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Human error and suboptimal monitoring practices result in large financial losses and losses of life everyday. The U.S. petrochemical industry has estimated that $20 billion/year is spent as a direct consequence of minor events that escalate into larger accidents as a result of human error, or of workers not detecting events and taking corrective action quickly enough. In healthcare, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimates that on average every hospital patient in the U.S. is subjected to one medication error every day and as many as 98, 000 people die in the US each year as a result of preventable human error, making human error the eighth most common cause of death in the U.S. As just one example, the IOM estimates that at least 25% of human errors in medicine would be preventable with better clinical decision support systems. This research will develop better decision support systems that take into account human error and how humans work.