Title: Human Behavior and Error in Everyday Activities: Exploring Anthropometry, Navigation, and Accidents

Activity 1 – Anthropometry
Describe how you would operationalise the following constructs:
reach
personal space
walking
(e.g., step length and consistency, distance/time, gait pattern?)
For each construct, collect some data and see if you can calculate a mean and standard deviation from some of your proposed measures.
Activity 2 – Navigation
Landmarks and Maps
Use a card sorting task, to list different ways of navigating between different locations
Categorise different methods into those based on landmarks, versus topography versus an overall reference system (GPS, compass, stars)
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of landmark-based navigation in egocentric space versus map-based navigation in allocentric space.
Indigenous Navigation
Watch the following video and describe the encoding of navigation into narrative memory
Activity 3 – Accidents and errors
Errors
Identify several errors that could occur in the following situations:
Driving
Missing a deadline.
Going to the wrong room for your lecture.
Sending an e-mail/message to the wrong person(s).
Explain for each case how these errors might be:
A slip or a mistake.
An error of omission or commission (and which types).
A skill-, rule-, or knowledge-based error.
Near misses and accidents
Define the notion of near miss versus accident.
Discuss human factors methods of reducing human error as described in the text.
What extra insights on human error do you get from Sydney Dekker’s Safety Differently videoLinks to an external site. (trailer listed under extra resources)
Each section is required to be 1000 words I will provide documents in which you must use for referencing