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Defining human-centricity in Industry 5.0 and assessing the readiness of ergonomics/human factors communities in UK (2024)
Journal Article

There is a lack of a clear and consistent definition of human-centricity in Industry 5.0. This study identified the definition of human-centricity in Industry 5.0 through a systematic literature review and used it to assess the readiness of Ergonomic... Read More about Defining human-centricity in Industry 5.0 and assessing the readiness of ergonomics/human factors communities in UK.

Seeing Your Stories: Visualization for Narrative Medicine (2023)
Journal Article

Importance: Narrative medicine (NM), in which patient stories play a crucial role in their diagnosis and treatment, can potentially support a more holistic approach to patient care than traditional scientific ones. However, there are some challenges... Read More about Seeing Your Stories: Visualization for Narrative Medicine.

The future of manufacturing: Utopia or dystopia? (2022)
Journal Article

Digital manufacturing technologies (DMTs) have the potential to transform industry productivity, but their introduction into the workplace is often a complex process, requiring not only technical expertise but also an awareness of ethical and societa... Read More about The future of manufacturing: Utopia or dystopia?.

Visualising emotion in support of patient-physician communication: an empirical study (2022)
Journal Article

Patient-physician communication is a crucial aspect of clinical diagnoses and treatments. However, there are barriers to effective empathic practices, including consciousness, busy working rhythms, and difficulties recognising patients’ implicit emot... Read More about Visualising emotion in support of patient-physician communication: an empirical study.

Cognitive and metabolic workload assessment techniques: A review in automotive manufacturing context (2021)
Journal Article

Ergonomics assessment in the automotive industry has, to date, focused mainly on physical ergonomics, for example, manual handling and posture. However, workload and, in particular, metabolic and cognitive workload, contributes to worker efficiency b... Read More about Cognitive and metabolic workload assessment techniques: A review in automotive manufacturing context.

Towards Using the Critical Decision Method for Studying Visualisation-Based Decision-Making (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Visualisations provide significant support for effective reasoning and decision-making processes. Its value mainly lies in its ability to turn raw data into actionable insights that lead to a decision. This requires appropriate visual representations... Read More about Towards Using the Critical Decision Method for Studying Visualisation-Based Decision-Making.

Towards Using the Critical Decision Method for Studying Visualisation-Based Decision-Making (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Visualisations provide significant support for effective reasoning and decision-making processes. Its value mainly lies in its ability to turn raw data into actionable insights that lead to a decision. This requires appropriate visual representations... Read More about Towards Using the Critical Decision Method for Studying Visualisation-Based Decision-Making.

Probing cultural differences in product design and consumer evaluation using repertory grid analysis (2021)
Journal Article

Culture plays an essential role in the success of product design, especially in the age of a global economy where there is a high probability of discrepancy between the designer's intention and the consumer's response. However, the role of culture is... Read More about Probing cultural differences in product design and consumer evaluation using repertory grid analysis.

SHION (Smart tHermoplastic InjectiON): An Interactive Digital Twin Supporting Real-Time Shopfloor Operations (2020)
Journal Article

Injection molding is widely used to produce plastic components with large lot size. However, guaranteeing consistency and quality of parts in injection molding is challenging. Failures occur due to variation during injection cycles. Thus, real-time d... Read More about SHION (Smart tHermoplastic InjectiON): An Interactive Digital Twin Supporting Real-Time Shopfloor Operations.

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.

Multimodal virtual environments: an opportunity to improve fire safety training? (2020)
Journal Article

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)
Conference Proceeding

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

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

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

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.

Human behaviour in emergency situations: Comparisons between aviation and rail domains (2017)
Journal Article

This article presents a comparative review of the knowledge base regarding human behaviour in emergencies for both aviation and rail domains. Generic models of human behaviour in emergency situations are introduced and specific attention is then focu... Read More about Human behaviour in emergency situations: Comparisons between aviation and rail domains.

Variability of human behaviour in outdoor public spaces, associated with the thermal environment (2017)
Conference Proceeding

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)
Conference Proceeding

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

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)
Conference Proceeding

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.