Designing for usability: key principles and what designers think
Communications of the ACM
System design for human interaction
System design for human interaction
Cost/benefit analysis for incorporating human factors in the software lifecycle
Communications of the ACM
The Usability Engineering Life Cycle
Computer
Cost-justifying usability
Human factors in systems engineering
Human factors in systems engineering
The usability engineering lifecycle: a practitioner's handbook for user interface design
The usability engineering lifecycle: a practitioner's handbook for user interface design
The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods
The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods
Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management
Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management
Guest editorial: human-centered computing in health information systems. Part 1: Analysis and design
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Human-centered computing in health information systems. Part 1: Analysis and design
Development and evaluation of nursing user interface screens using multiple methods
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
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The discipline of systems engineering, over the past five decades, has used a structured systematic approach to managing the "cradle to grave" development of products and processes. While elements of this approach are typically used to guide the development of information systems that instantiate a significant user interface, it appears to be rare for the entire process to be implemented. In fact, a number of authors have put forth development lifecycle models that are subsets of the classical systems engineering method, but fail to include steps such as incremental hazard analysis and post-deployment corrective and preventative actions. In that most health information systems have safety implications, we argue that the design and development of such systems would benefit by implementing this systems engineering approach in full. Particularly with regard to bringing a human-centered perspective to the formulation of system requirements and the configuration of effective user interfaces, this classical systems engineering method provides an excellent framework for incorporating human factors (ergonomics) knowledge and integrating ergonomists in the interdisciplinary development of health information systems.