Psychology · Applied Psychology
A topic within Applied Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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James Reason
Introduces the 'Swiss cheese' model of accident causation, arguing that error is better managed by designing systems with multiple layered defences than by trying to make individual people stop making mistakes.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Paul M. Fitts
Shows movement time to a target grows in proportion to the log of the ratio between distance and target width, a lawful speed-accuracy trade-off that became the basic quantitative model for designing anything a person has to point at.