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Design patterns have been widely touted as a potential solution to the difficulty of expressing and sharing software design expertise. Patterns have also recently been suggested as a basis for capturing the characteristics of “usable” user-interfaces. We propose that patterns may also be useful for guiding development of human-machine interfaces for safety-critical systems. We consider usability in the context of system safety and present a pattern language for developing safe human-machine interfaces.
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Hussey, A. (1999). Patterns for Safer Human-Computer Interfaces. In: Felici, M., Kanoun, K. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability and Security. SAFECOMP 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1698. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48249-0_10
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