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In this paper, we discuss the requirements for a tool to support analysis of the impact of erroneous task performances on a system, and report on preliminary work on a prototype implementation in Prolog. We define impact informally as: ’the effect that an action or sequence of actions has on the safe and successful operation of a system’ An understanding of the impact of particular sequences of interactions may help humanmachine interface 1 designers to derive designs that minimise the probability that sequences with high negative impacts will occur.
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Dearden, A.M., Harrison, M.D. (1997). Using Executable Interactor Specifications to Explore the Impact of Operator Interaction Errors. In: Daniel, P. (eds) Safe Comp 97. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0997-6_11
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