%0 Conference Paper
%B 5th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations
%D 2015
%T Early identification of software causes of use-related hazards in medical devices
%A Paolo Masci
%A Paul Curzon
%A Harold Thimbleby
%I ACM
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.14-10-2015.2261720
%X <p>A hazard is a potential source of physical injury or damage to people or environment, and a hazard analysis is the process of identifying all known and foreseeable hazards and their causes in a system. In this paper, we illustrate our ongoing work in collaboration with the FDA on defining a hazard analysis technique for early identification of the causes in user interface software design of use-related hazards. The technique integrates human cognitive process models and general interaction design principles, and uses a model-based approach for systematic exploration of potential hazards. Preliminary experiments suggest that this hazard analysis technique can substantially improve the identification of use-related hazards at the early stages of software design as compared to standard hazard analysis techniques.</p>
%> https://haslab.uminho.pt/sites/default/files/masci/files/mobihealth-hazard-analysis.pdf