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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
Hermawati, S., Correa, R., Mohan, M., Lawson, G., & Houghton, R. (2024). Defining human-centricity in Industry 5.0 and assessing the readiness of Ergonomics/Human Factors communities in UK. Ergonomics, https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2024.2343947

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.

The Need for a Symbiotic Interface for a Digital Twin (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Palmer, C., Goh, Y. M., Hubbard, E., Grant, R., & Houghton, R. (2023). The Need for a Symbiotic Interface for a Digital Twin. In Leveraging transdisciplinary engineering in a changing and connected world : proceedings of the 30th ISTE international conference on transdisciplinary engineering (873 - 882). https://doi.org/10.3233/ATDE230685

Human interaction with a Digital Twin is an emerging concept for which there are no common definitions. This paper considers the various types of human interaction with Digital Twins. There is very little research considering human cognitive interact... Read More about The Need for a Symbiotic Interface for a Digital Twin.

The Challenges of Conducting Transdisciplinary Engineering Research: A Case Study of the Made Smarter Innovation: Centre for People-Led Digitalisation (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Lattanzio, S., Goh, Y. M., Houghton, R., & Newnes, L. (2023). The Challenges of Conducting Transdisciplinary Engineering Research: A Case Study of the Made Smarter Innovation: Centre for People-Led Digitalisation. In Proceedings of the 30th ISTE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering, Hua Hin Cha Am, Thailand, July 11–14, 2023 (751-760). https://doi.org/10.3233/atde230672

In order to meet growing complexity in societal and industrial requirements for engineering projects, there is a growing need for research projects that transcend traditional single discipline silos. Widespread experience and a growing academic liter... Read More about The Challenges of Conducting Transdisciplinary Engineering Research: A Case Study of the Made Smarter Innovation: Centre for People-Led Digitalisation.

Understanding factors that influence unintentional insider threat: a framework to counteract unintentional risks (2021)
Journal Article
Khan, N., Houghton, R., & Sharples, S. (2022). Understanding factors that influence unintentional insider threat: a framework to counteract unintentional risks. Cognition, Technology and Work, 24, 393-421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-021-00690-z

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.

Identifying Aircraft Passenger Postures and Factors Influencing Body Part Discomfort (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Sharafkhani, M., Argyle, E., Cobb, S., Tennent, P., & Houghton, R. (2019). Identifying Aircraft Passenger Postures and Factors Influencing Body Part Discomfort. In Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Comfort ICC2019

Aircraft passengers’ physical activity levels are often limited during flight for extended periods of time, which can have serious impact on health, comfort, and passenger experience. Passengers are generally advised to walk around the plane and do c... Read More about Identifying Aircraft Passenger Postures and Factors Influencing Body Part Discomfort.

Planet Four: Craters—Optimizing task workflow to improve volunteer engagement and crater counting performance (2019)
Journal Article
Sprinks, J., Houghton, R., Bamford, S., & Morley, J. G. (2019). Planet Four: Craters—Optimizing task workflow to improve volunteer engagement and crater counting performance. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 54(6), 1325-1346. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13277

Virtual citizen science platforms allow nonscientists to take part in scientific research across a range of disciplines, including planetary science. What is required of the volunteer can vary considerably in terms of task type, variety, judgment req... Read More about Planet Four: Craters—Optimizing task workflow to improve volunteer engagement and crater counting performance.

Comparing experts and novices in Martian surface feature change detection and identification (2017)
Journal Article
Wardlaw, J., Sprinks, J., Houghton, R., Muller, J., Sidiropoulos, P., Bamford, S., & Marsh, S. (in press). Comparing experts and novices in Martian surface feature change detection and identification. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2017.05.014

Change detection in satellite images is a key concern of the Earth Observation field for environmental and climate change monitoring. Satellite images also provide important clues to both the past and present surface conditions of other planets, whic... Read More about Comparing experts and novices in Martian surface feature change detection and identification.

Task Workflow Design and its impact on performance and volunteers' subjective preference in Virtual Citizen Science (2017)
Journal Article
Sprinks, J., Wardlaw, J., Houghton, R., Bamford, S., & Morley, J. (2017). Task Workflow Design and its impact on performance and volunteers' subjective preference in Virtual Citizen Science. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 104, 50-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.03.003

© 2017 The Authors Virtual citizen science platforms allow non-scientists to take part in scientific research across a range of disciplines. What they ask of volunteers varies considerably in terms of task type, variety, user judgement required and u... Read More about Task Workflow Design and its impact on performance and volunteers' subjective preference in Virtual Citizen Science.

EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK (2016)
Journal Article
Jan-Peter, M., Yu, T., Panagiotis, S., Klaus, G., Konrad, W., Lida, F., …Bamford, S. (2016). EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLI-B4, 453-458. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b4-453-2016

Understanding planetary atmosphere-surface exchange and extra-terrestrial-surface formation processes within our Solar System is one of the fundamental goals of planetary science research. There has been a revolution in planetary surface observations... Read More about EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK.

How relevant is copyright to online artists? A qualitative study of understandings, coping strategies, and possible solutions (2016)
Journal Article
Dowthwaite, L., Houghton, R. J., & Mortier, R. (2016). How relevant is copyright to online artists? A qualitative study of understandings, coping strategies, and possible solutions. First Monday, 21(5), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i5.6107

Online copyright law is a major issue for many in the creative industries. Independent artists often rely on sharing their work across social media and content-sharing sites, leaving them open to having their work stolen or misused. This paper discus... Read More about How relevant is copyright to online artists? A qualitative study of understandings, coping strategies, and possible solutions.

Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Houghton, R., & Mortier, R. (2015). Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share. In Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2015 (355-362). https://doi.org/10.1201/b18293

Online social networks are complex systems that are traditionally discussed in several different ways, often revolving around either the technology and design of the platforms themselves, or the behaviour and social interactions of the communities th... Read More about Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share.