UK EPSRC Grant No. GR/M98302

Web sites are increasingly replacing the dissemination of accident reports through conventional, paper-based documents. Unfortunately, most investigation authorities have insufficient resources to best exploit the visualisation and presentation opportunities of the new media. They simply provide electronic versions of the text-based document. Occasionally hypertext links are provided within single reports. There are, as yet, no on-line examples of accident reports that contain hypertext links between incidents. This is a significant limitation because many people have argued that designers must have a clear understanding of common causes between multiple failure if they are to prevent future accident and incidents. This proposal is predicated on the idea that it is practical to separate, formally, the information content of Web sites from their presentational form and to derive content via automated synthesis. This approach can yield reduced costs and new opportunities to improve the presentation of electronic accident reports.

Chris Johnson, Rebecca Randell, Fraser Speirs
Glasgow Accident Analysis Group, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.

Dave Robertson, Siu Wai Leung, Joao Cavalcanti,
Software Systems and Processes Group, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

John Lee, Corin Gurr,
Human Communication Research Centre, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

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