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Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in research and funding: reflections from a digital manufacturing research network (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Equal, diverse, and inclusive teams lead to higher productivity, creativity, and greater problem-solving ability resulting in more impactful research. However, there is a gap between equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) research and p... Read More about Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in research and funding: reflections from a digital manufacturing research network.

Investigating levels of remote operation in high-level on-road autonomous vehicles using operator sequence diagrams (2024)
Journal Article

The continuing development of autonomous vehicle technology is making the presence of fully autonomous vehicles (SAE Level 5 of Driving Automation) on the road an ever more likely possibility. Similarly, regulation changes show countries are preparin... Read More about Investigating levels of remote operation in high-level on-road autonomous vehicles using operator sequence diagrams.

Ethical Concerns and Perceptions of Consumer Neurotechnology from Lived Experiences of Mental Workload Tracking (2022)
Conference Proceeding

With rapid growth in the development of consumer neurotechnology, it is imperative to consider the ethical implications that this might have in order to minimise consumer harm. Whilst ethical and legal guidelines for commercialisation have previously... Read More about Ethical Concerns and Perceptions of Consumer Neurotechnology from Lived Experiences of Mental Workload Tracking.

Understanding factors that influence unintentional insider threat: a framework to counteract unintentional risks (2021)
Journal Article

The exploitation of so-called insiders is increasingly recognised as a common vector for cyberattacks. Emerging work in this area has considered the phenomenon from various perspectives including the technological, the psychological and the sociotech... Read More about Understanding factors that influence unintentional insider threat: a framework to counteract unintentional risks.

Physiological Indicators of Task Demand, Fatigue, and Cognition in Future Digital Manufacturing Environments (2020)
Journal Article

As Digital Manufacturing transforms traditionally physical work into more system-monitoring tasks, new methods are required for understanding people's mental workload and prolonged capacity for focused attention. Many physiological measures have... Read More about Physiological Indicators of Task Demand, Fatigue, and Cognition in Future Digital Manufacturing Environments.

The impact of an electronic patient bedside observation and handover system on clinical practice: mixed-methods evaluation (2019)
Journal Article

Background: Patient safety literature has long reported the need for early recognition of deteriorating patients. Early warning scores (EWSs) are commonly implemented as “track and trigger,” or rapid response systems for monitoring and early recognit... Read More about The impact of an electronic patient bedside observation and handover system on clinical practice: mixed-methods evaluation.

Natural locomotion based on a reduced set of inertial sensors: decoupling body and head directions indoors (2018)
Journal Article

Inertial sensors offer the potential for integration into wireless virtual reality systems that allow the users to walk freely through virtual environments. However, owing to drift errors, inertial sensors cannot accurately estimate head and body ori... Read More about Natural locomotion based on a reduced set of inertial sensors: decoupling body and head directions indoors.

Seeing the woods for the trees: the problem of information inefficiency and information overload on operator performance (2017)
Journal Article

One of the recurring questions in designing dynamic control environments is whether providing more information leads to better operational decisions. The idea of having every piece of information is increasingly tempting (and in safety critical domai... Read More about Seeing the woods for the trees: the problem of information inefficiency and information overload on operator performance.

Required navigation performance for connected and autonomous vehicles: where are we now and where are we going? (2017)
Journal Article

(2018) Required navigation performance for connected and autonomous vehicles: where are we now and where are we going?, Transportation Planning and Technology, 41:1, 104-118, ABSTRACT While automotive original equipment manufacturers and IT companies... Read More about Required navigation performance for connected and autonomous vehicles: where are we now and where are we going?.

Living with an autonomous spatiotemporal home heating system: exploration of the user experiences (UX) through a longitudinal technology intervention-based mixed-methods approach (2017)
Journal Article

Rising energy demands place pressure on domestic energy consumption, but savings can be delivered through home automation and engaging users with their heating and energy behaviours. The aim of this paper is to explore user experiences (UX) of living... Read More about Living with an autonomous spatiotemporal home heating system: exploration of the user experiences (UX) through a longitudinal technology intervention-based mixed-methods approach.

A cross-sector analysis of human and organisational factors in the deployment of data-driven predictive maintenance (2017)
Journal Article

Domains such as utilities, power generation, manufacturing and transport are increasingly turning to data-driven tools for management and maintenance of key assets. Whole ecosystems of sensors and analytical tools can provide complex, predictive view... Read More about A cross-sector analysis of human and organisational factors in the deployment of data-driven predictive maintenance.

The dichotomy of the application of a systems approach in UK healthcare: the challenges and priorities for implementation (2017)
Journal Article

There is increasing demand for a systems approach within national healthcare guidelines to provide a systematic and sustainable framework for improvements in patient safety. Supported by this is the growing body of evidence within Human Factors/Ergon... Read More about The dichotomy of the application of a systems approach in UK healthcare: the challenges and priorities for implementation.

Expert knowledge elicitation to generate human factors guidance for future European rail traffic management system (ERTMS) train driving models (2017)
Journal Article

The European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) will have an impact on the train driving task and train driver behaviour. This paper presents part of the final study of series of studies that have been conducted as part of a three-year research p... Read More about Expert knowledge elicitation to generate human factors guidance for future European rail traffic management system (ERTMS) train driving models.

What are the pros and cons of electronically monitoring inhaler use in asthma? A multistakeholder perspective (2016)
Journal Article

Introduction Electronic monitoring devices (EMDs) are the optimal method for collecting objective data on inhaler use in asthma. Recent research has investigated the attitudes of patients with asthma towards these devices. However, no research to... Read More about What are the pros and cons of electronically monitoring inhaler use in asthma? A multistakeholder perspective.

Seeing the woods for the trees: the problem of information inefficiency and information overload on operator performance (2016)
Journal Article

One of the recurring questions in designing dynamic control environments is whether providing more information leads to better operational decisions. The idea of having every piece of information and increasing situation awareness is so tempting (and... Read More about Seeing the woods for the trees: the problem of information inefficiency and information overload on operator performance.

See I told you I was taking it! - attitudes of adolescents with asthma towards a device monitoring their inhaler use: Implications for future design (2016)
Journal Article

Adherence to treatment in asthma is often poor, particularly in adolescents and children where the condition is most prevalent. Electronic monitoring devices have shown potential for improving inhaler use, yet little research has considered the attit... Read More about See I told you I was taking it! - attitudes of adolescents with asthma towards a device monitoring their inhaler use: Implications for future design.

Alarm handling for health monitoring: operator strategies used in an electrical control room of a rail network (2016)
Journal Article

Alarm management is a key component of the successful operation of a prognostic or health-monitoring technology. Although alarms can alert the operator to critical information, false alarms and alarm flooding can cause major difficulties for successf... Read More about Alarm handling for health monitoring: operator strategies used in an electrical control room of a rail network.

3D printing system: an innovation for small-scale manufacturing in home settings? – early adopters of 3D printing systems in China (2016)
Journal Article

This study investigates Chinese consumers’ adoption of the innovative 3D printing systems for small-scale manufacturing in home settings. Empirical studies were conducted in a survey with 256 participants. The number of significant determinants that... Read More about 3D printing system: an innovation for small-scale manufacturing in home settings? – early adopters of 3D printing systems in China.

Journey decision making: the influence on drivers of dynamic information presented on variable message signs (2015)
Journal Article

In many highways environments electronic media such as variable message signs are increasingly being used to provide drivers with up-to-date dynamic information in order to influence driving decision making during journeys. These decisions may be ass... Read More about Journey decision making: the influence on drivers of dynamic information presented on variable message signs.

The experience of couples being given an oxygen concentrator to use at home: A longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis (2015)
Journal Article

This longitudinal study explores the lived experience of four couples where one person from each couple is prescribed an oxygen concentrator to use at home. Transcripts were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The findings report... Read More about The experience of couples being given an oxygen concentrator to use at home: A longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis.

A survey-based cross-sectional study of doctors’ expectations and experiences of non-technical skills for out of hours work (2015)
Journal Article

Objectives: The skill set required for junior doctors to work efficiently and safely Out of Hours (OoH) in hospitals has not been established. This is despite the OoH period representing 75% of the year and it being the time of highest mortality. We... Read More about A survey-based cross-sectional study of doctors’ expectations and experiences of non-technical skills for out of hours work.

Impact of automation: measurement of performance, workload and behaviour in a complex control environment (2014)
Journal Article

This paper describes an experiment that was undertaken to compare three levels of automation in rail signalling; a high level in which an automated agent set routes for trains using timetable information, a medium level in which trains were routed al... Read More about Impact of automation: measurement of performance, workload and behaviour in a complex control environment.

Medical device design for adolescent adherence and developmental goals: a case study of a cystic fibrosis physiotherapy device (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose: This study investigates the psychosocial aspects of adolescent medical device use and the impact on adolescent adherence and goals for the transitional years between child and adulthood. Patients and methods: Interviews were carried out w... Read More about Medical device design for adolescent adherence and developmental goals: a case study of a cystic fibrosis physiotherapy device.

A vignette study examining the effects of different types of diagnostic procedure and information provision preferences (2012)
Conference Proceeding

A vignette study was conducted to examine attitudes in a student population with respect to three different types of diagnostic procedure (blood test, imaging procedure and invasive procedure) and three different disease areas (coronary, gastroentero... Read More about A vignette study examining the effects of different types of diagnostic procedure and information provision preferences.