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CfP: Workshop on Safety-Critical Systems Design and Evaluation
Deadline: 27 June 2008
Source: ACM CHI Announcements, 13 May 2008
Submitted by
S. Taneva
This Workshop is held in conjunction with 26th International System Safety Conference
(http://www.system-safety.org/~issc2008/)
August 25, Vancouver, Canada
Overview
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Aviation and healthcare are two prominent safety-critical domains, sharing many similarities yet differing on several dimensions. Previous work has demonstrated the likeness between airplane cockpit and operating rooms, but also the differing communication styles in the two environments. System design and evaluation methods proven effective in reducing errors and accidents in aviation may be applicable to healthcare, or vice-versa. Consequently, reusability of knowledge and skills between the domains can facilitate system safety. Given these benefits, the transferability of design and evaluation methods across these two domains is important to explore and exploit.
The goal of the workshop is to explore transferability of methods, as related to safety requirements and error factors, through a systematic review of similarities and differences of existing design and evaluation methods in both domains. Contributions from practitioners and researchers working in one or both fields are invited. Participants will engage in dialogues to reflect on strengths and weaknesses of a repertoire of methods, and how gaps between requirements and methods can be bridged with knowledge borrowed from the related domains. Follow-up activities will be organized to extend participants’ efforts and interests to pursue long-term goals (e.g. developing a generic framework, joint journal paper, special interest group).
Topics
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A major goal of the workshop is to explore the similarities and differences in both high-risk domains. Case studies of system designs and evaluations in both domains are of interest, especially approaches that address the following issues:
* task analysis methods that consider human error and safety issues
* human factors, in particular human error
* communication and workflow analysis
* system safety design
* breakdowns of communication, coordination, or technical breakdowns
* communication standards/protocol design
* verification and validation of safety-critical systems
* situation awareness
* interruptions
* system factors
* theoretical frameworks such as activity theory, situated activity, distributed cognition, organizational and social theory
Submissions
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* Case studies of designs/evaluations that applied a domain-specific method to a safety-critical system
* Case studies of applying customized/in-house generic method to the design of a system in order to address safety requirements
* Case studies of designs/evaluations that transferred an aviation method to the healthcare domain, or vice versa
* Applied conceptual frameworks enabling the understanding of the transferability of methods across the two domains
Workshop Scope: Methods for design, analysis and evaluation of systems that address issues related to the safety-critical aspects of the applicable domain (i.e. human error, communication, coordination, situation awareness, workflow, physical environment design, etc.) The workshop will NOT consider methods related to management and efficiency of airports and hospitals, or passenger and patient throughput.
Deadline: June 27th 2008
Please send your submissions to safety@tik.ee.ethz.ch
Submissions will be 4-6 pages in the ISSC2008 format (see the link "paper formatting instructions" on http://www.system-safety.org/~issc2008/call.php).
All submissions will be peer reviewed by the Program Committee (PC) members on the relevance to the workshop theme.
Publication: Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Following the workshop, authors will have the opportunity to extend their contributions to a full paper for inclusion in a special issue of an international journal. The extended papers will undergo a new round of peer reviews.
Important dates
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Submission Deadline: June 27th, 2008
Notification date: July 15th, 2008
Camera-ready versions: July 22nd, 2008
Workshop: August 25th, 2008
Program Committee
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Richard Cook, University of Chicago, USA
Guy Boy, EURISCO International, France
Robert L. Helmreich, University of Texas, USA
Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow, UK
Yan Xiao, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Gudela Grote, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (to be confirmed)
Fabio Paterno, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Philippe Palanque, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Ginette Taylor, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Canada
William Wong, Middlesex University, UK
Philipp Quaet-Faslem, Siemens, Germany
Avi Parush, Carleton University, Canada
Svetlena Taneva, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Effie Law, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Workshop organizers
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Svetlena Taneva, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), tanevas@ethz.ch
Effie Lai-Chong Law, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), lawl@ethz.ch
Avi Parush, Carleton University, Canada, avi_parush@carleton.ca
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