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The Redesign of a Checklist for Evaluating Driver Impairment: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Approach
The Cantonal Police of Zurich, Switzerland, use a checklist to identify impaired drivers when conducting traffic stops. This checklist was developed by subject-matter experts and has been in use for eight years. The goal of this study was to redesign the checklist while considering human factors and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320005/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35885818 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10071292 |
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description | The Cantonal Police of Zurich, Switzerland, use a checklist to identify impaired drivers when conducting traffic stops. This checklist was developed by subject-matter experts and has been in use for eight years. The goal of this study was to redesign the checklist while considering human factors and ergonomics principles in combination with findings from a retrospective analysis of a set of 593 completed checklists. The checklist was amended in accordance with the results of the retrospective analysis by adding missing items and discarding superfluous ones. In addition, a hierarchical cluster analysis of the retrospective data suggested an improved spatial organization of checklist elements and the grouping of similar items of the checklist. Furthermore, aspects related to Fitts’s law, visual complexity, and an optimized direction of processing the checklist underpinned the design process. The results of an evaluation of the redesigned checklist by 11 laypeople and 13 police officers indicated an improved usability of the redesigned checklist over the original. |
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spelling | pubmed-93200052022-07-27 The Redesign of a Checklist for Evaluating Driver Impairment: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Approach Baertsch, Tanja Menozzi, Marino Healthcare (Basel) Article The Cantonal Police of Zurich, Switzerland, use a checklist to identify impaired drivers when conducting traffic stops. This checklist was developed by subject-matter experts and has been in use for eight years. The goal of this study was to redesign the checklist while considering human factors and ergonomics principles in combination with findings from a retrospective analysis of a set of 593 completed checklists. The checklist was amended in accordance with the results of the retrospective analysis by adding missing items and discarding superfluous ones. In addition, a hierarchical cluster analysis of the retrospective data suggested an improved spatial organization of checklist elements and the grouping of similar items of the checklist. Furthermore, aspects related to Fitts’s law, visual complexity, and an optimized direction of processing the checklist underpinned the design process. The results of an evaluation of the redesigned checklist by 11 laypeople and 13 police officers indicated an improved usability of the redesigned checklist over the original. MDPI 2022-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9320005/ /pubmed/35885818 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10071292 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Baertsch, Tanja Menozzi, Marino The Redesign of a Checklist for Evaluating Driver Impairment: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Approach |
title | The Redesign of a Checklist for Evaluating Driver Impairment: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Approach |
title_full | The Redesign of a Checklist for Evaluating Driver Impairment: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Approach |
title_fullStr | The Redesign of a Checklist for Evaluating Driver Impairment: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Approach |
title_full_unstemmed | The Redesign of a Checklist for Evaluating Driver Impairment: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Approach |
title_short | The Redesign of a Checklist for Evaluating Driver Impairment: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Approach |
title_sort | redesign of a checklist for evaluating driver impairment: a human factors and ergonomics approach |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320005/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35885818 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10071292 |
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