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H. Thimbleby & P. Thimbleby, Patient Safety — Stories for a digital world, Amazon (2024). URL https://amzn.eu/d/cftlqGJ — URL https://www.harold.thimbleby.net/booklet
H. Thimbleby, British Medical Association best book award, Fix IT: See and Solve the Problems of Digital Healthcare, Oxford University Press (2021).
H. Thimbleby, “Human Factors and missed solutions to Enigma design weaknesses”, Cryptologia, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 177–202 (2016). DOI: 10.1080/01611194.2015.1028680
A. Lewis, H. Thimbleby & J. Williams, “Making Healthcare Safer by Understanding, Designing and Buying Better IT”, Clinical Medicine, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 258–262 (2015). DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-3-258
H. Thimbleby, “Safer User Interfaces: A Case Study in Improving Number Entry”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 711–729 (2015). DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2014.2383396
P. Cairns, P. Oladimeji & H. Thimbleby, “Unreliable numbers: Error and harm induced by bad design can be reduced by better design”, Journal Royal Society Interface, vol. 12, no. 110, p. 20150685 (2015). DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0685
K. Li & H. Thimbleby, “Hot Cheese: A Processed Swiss Cheese Model”, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 116–121 (2014). PDF DOI: 10.4997/JRCPE.2014.205
P. Lee, H. Thimbleby & F. Thompson, “Analysis of Infusion Pump Error Logs and Their Significance for Healthcare”, British Journal of Nursing, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. S12–S22 (2012). PDF
H. Thimbleby, “Heedless Programming: Ignoring Detectable Error is a Widespread Hazard”, Software — Practice & Experience, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 1393–1407 (2012). PDF DOI: 10.1002/spe.1141
H. Thimbleby, “Avoiding Latent Design Conditions Using UI Discovery Tools”, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 1–12 (2010). PDF DOI: 10.1080/10447310903498692
P. Cairns & H. Thimbleby, “Reducing Number Entry Errors: Solving a Widespread, Serious Problem”, Journal Royal Society Interface, vol. 7, no. 51, pp. 1429–1439 (2010). URL http://harold.thimbleby.net/interface/ PDF DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0112
P. Cairns & H. Thimbleby, “Affordance and Symmetry in User Interfaces”, Computer Journal, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 650–661 (2008). PDF DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxm102
H. Thimbleby, “The curse of knowledge and implications for better design”, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer (in press).
H. Thimbleby & M. Thomas, “The Post Office Horizon Scandal: Ensuring nothing like it ever happens again”, Developing safer systems, Proc 33rd Safety-Critical Systems Symposium (SSS’25), M. Parsons (editor), vol. SCSC-199, pp. 361–376, York (2025).
A. Cox, P. Curzon, I. Iacovides, P. Oladimeji & H. Thimbleby, “Exploring unlikely errors using video games: An example in number entry research”, Proceedings Fun & Games 2012 Workshop: Safety-Critical Systems and Video Games, pp. 3–7, Toulose, France (2012).
H. Thimbleby, “Improving Safety in Medical Devices and Systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2013 (ICHI 2013), Keynote, pp. 1–13, Philadelphia, USA (2013). PDF DOI: 10.1109/ICHI.2013.91
H. Thimbleby, “Interactive Systems Need Safety Locks”, Proceedings of the IEEE ITI 2010 32nd International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, Keynote, Z. Bekic, I. Jarec & V. Luzar-Stiffler (editors), pp. 29–36, Cavtat, Croatia (2010). PDF
H. Thimbleby, “Avoiding Latent Design Conditions Using UI Discovery Tools”, Proceedings 9th Naturalistic Decision Making, NDM9, Keynote, N. A. Stanton & B. L. W. Wong (editors), pp. 20–27, London (2009). PDF DOI: 10.1080/10447310903498692
H. Thimbleby, “User-centered Methods are Insufficient for Safety Critical Systems”, USAB’07 — Usability & HCI for Medicine and Health Care, Keynote, A. Holzinger (editor), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4799, pp. 1–20, Springer Verlag, Graz, Austria (2007). PDF
H. Thimbleby, “How Reliable are Pandemic Models?”, Safety Systems (2020).
H. Thimbleby, “Errors + Bugs Needn’t Mean Death”, Public Service Review: UK Science & Technology, vol. 2, pp. 18–19 (2011). PDF
H. Thimbleby, “Using Swiss Cheese to Understand Human Factors”, Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors Conference on Ergonomics & Human Factors, Burton upon Trent, England (2025).
H. Thimbleby, “Critical Innovation — Making digital health successful”, Royal College of Physicians Regional Update, Loughborough (2024).
H. Thimbleby, “Misunderstandings about digital healthcare and how to improve digital patient safety”, NHS England, London (2024).
H. Thimbleby, “Digital Behind the Scenes in Vaccination and Patient Care”, 6th Saudi International Vaccination Forum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2024).
H. Thimbleby, “How HCI can see & solve problems of healthcare”, 15th Irish HCI Symposium, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2022).
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