Outputs (29)

Multimodal virtual environments: an opportunity to improve fire safety training? (2020)
Journal Article
Lawson, G., Roper, T., Shaw, E., Hsieh, M.-K., & Cobb, S. V. (2020). Multimodal virtual environments: an opportunity to improve fire safety training?. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 18(2), 155-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/14773996.2020.1796085

Fires and fire-related fatalities remain a tragic and frequent occurrence. Evidence has shown that humans adopt sub-optimal behaviours during fire incidents and, therefore, training is one possible means to improve occupant survival rates. We present... Read More about Multimodal virtual environments: an opportunity to improve fire safety training?.

The Heat is On: Exploring User Behaviour in a Multisensory Virtual Environment for Fire Evacuation (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shaw, E., Roper, T., Nilsson, T., Lawson, G., Cobb, S. V., & Miller, D. (2019, May). The Heat is On: Exploring User Behaviour in a Multisensory Virtual Environment for Fire Evacuation. Presented at CHI '19: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow Scotland Uk

Understanding validity of user behaviour in Virtual Environments (VEs) is critical as they are increasingly being used for serious Health and Safety applications such as predicting human behaviour and training in hazardous situations. This paper pres... Read More about The Heat is On: Exploring User Behaviour in a Multisensory Virtual Environment for Fire Evacuation.

Evaluating secondary input devices to support an automotive touchscreen HMI: a cross-cultural simulator study conducted in the UK and China (2019)
Journal Article
Large, D., Burnett, G., Crundall, E., Lawson, G., Skrypchuk, L., & Mouzakitis, A. (2019). Evaluating secondary input devices to support an automotive touchscreen HMI: a cross-cultural simulator study conducted in the UK and China. Applied Ergonomics, 78, 184-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2019.03.005

Touchscreen Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) are a well-established and popular choice to provide the primary control interface between driver and vehicle, yet inherently demand some visual attention. Employing a secondary device with the touchscreen... Read More about Evaluating secondary input devices to support an automotive touchscreen HMI: a cross-cultural simulator study conducted in the UK and China.

Participatory ergonomics in Indonesian tin mining (2018)
Journal Article
Soejadi, P. P., Lawson, G., Ryan, B., & Hermawati, S. (2018). Participatory ergonomics in Indonesian tin mining. https://doi.org/10.21008/j.0239-9415.2017.075.20

Thousands of small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) employees in Indonesian tin mining companies work in dangerous environments without sufficient safety and health protections. This study’s aim was to investigate the identified factors, such as diffic... Read More about Participatory ergonomics in Indonesian tin mining.

Perceptions of an automotive load space in a virtual environment (2017)
Journal Article
Lawson, G., Roper, T., Herriotts, P., Malcolm, L., & Salanitri, D. (2017). Perceptions of an automotive load space in a virtual environment. International Journal of Vehicle Design, 74(2), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJVD.2017.085456

A study was conducted to investigate the accuracy of perceptions of a car load space in a CAVE virtual environment. A total of 46 participants rated load space width, height, depth, usability and overall capacity after viewing either a virtual Range... Read More about Perceptions of an automotive load space in a virtual environment.

Variability of human behaviour in outdoor public spaces, associated with the thermal environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waldron, J. A., Lawson, G., Robinson, D., & Cobb, S. Variability of human behaviour in outdoor public spaces, associated with the thermal environment. Presented at 33rd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture

This paper presents part of the outcomes of a programme of research into the influence of the thermal environment on human behaviour in an outdoor public seating area. The research was conducted during one month in summer, autumn and winter of 2015 a... Read More about Variability of human behaviour in outdoor public spaces, associated with the thermal environment.

Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roper, T., Lawson, G., & Abdullah, C. (2017, June). Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design. Presented at 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh, UK

Virtual Reality technologies are available at a lower cost than ever before. However, such systems are developed mainly for the consumer market, and inaccuracies in spatial judgements may make them unsuitable for specific applications like Engineerin... Read More about Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design.

User-centred design of a portable fire extinguisher (2017)
Journal Article
Amos, M., & Lawson, G. (2017). User-centred design of a portable fire extinguisher. Ergonomics in Design, 25(3), 20-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1064804617707871

This case study documents the process followed to produce an alternative design of fire extinguisher. The work focuses on how informative data can be gathered for an ethically challenging product scenario through the use of a range of user-centred re... Read More about User-centred design of a portable fire extinguisher.

Twist It, Touch It, Push It, Swipe It: Evaluating Secondary Input Devices for Use with an Automotive Touchscreen HMI (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Large, D. R., Burnett, G., Crundall, E., Lawson, G., & Skrypchuk, L. (2016, October). Twist It, Touch It, Push It, Swipe It: Evaluating Secondary Input Devices for Use with an Automotive Touchscreen HMI. Presented at 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Touchscreen Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) inherently demand some visual attention. By employing a secondary device, to work in unison with a touchscreen, some of this demand may be alleviated. In a medium-fidelity driving simulator, twenty-four dri... Read More about Twist It, Touch It, Push It, Swipe It: Evaluating Secondary Input Devices for Use with an Automotive Touchscreen HMI.

Multimodal “sensory illusions” for improving spatial awareness in virtual environments (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, G., Roper, T., & Abdullah, C. (2016, September). Multimodal “sensory illusions” for improving spatial awareness in virtual environments. Presented at European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2016

Inaccurate judgement of distances in virtual environments (VEs) restricts their usefulness for engineering development, in which engineers must have a good understanding of the spaces they are designing. Multimodal feedback can improve depth percept... Read More about Multimodal “sensory illusions” for improving spatial awareness in virtual environments.