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Label-checking strategies to adapt behaviour to design

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  • James H. Smith-Spark
  • Hillary B. Katz
  • Alexander Marchant
  • Thomas Wilcockson
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Publication date07/2015
Host publicationECCE '15 Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2015
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Number of pages6
ISBN (print)9781450336123
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Despite robust quality control procedures, labelling errors on fresh produce are estimated to cost the UK supermarket industry approximately £50million pounds per year in product recalls and wastage. Changing the format of the labels themselves is not a viable option. Instead, the challenge is to change or guide human operatives' behaviour so that label printing errors do not go undetected during quality control procedures. To this end, a simulated label checking task was presented to naïve participants to compare more systematic and strategic methods of label checking. Two conditions in which behaviour was computer-led were compared with a control condition in which checkers adopted their own idiosyncratic checking method. The data indicate that the two computer-led approaches resulted in improved levels of accuracy. Pushing label checkers towards a more systematic approach would appear to be effective in reducing undetected label errors, and could lead potentially to significant financial savings and reduced environmental wastage in the fresh produce industry.

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© ACM, 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in ECCE '15 Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2788412.2788425