Comparing fNIRS and facial thermography for assessing mental workload
(2018)
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Decision-making within missing person search (2018)
Journal Article
This paper reports the findings of a series of interviews with search and rescue volunteers. Participants were asked to recall accounts of particular incidents which involved searching for a missing adult who could be considered ‘vulnerable’. The pur... Read More about Decision-making within missing person search.
A context-based study of serendipity in information research among Chinese scholars (2018)
Journal Article
Purpose: The current understanding of serendipity is based primarily on studies employing Westerners as participants, and it remains uncertain whether or not this understanding would be pervasive under different cultures, such as in China. In additio... Read More about A context-based study of serendipity in information research among Chinese scholars.
Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Research continues to correlate physical signals with mental activity, as opposed to physical activity, with physiological sensors. Further, with the proliferation of wearable technology, it seems imminent that our smart watches can soon keep track o... Read More about Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker.
Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life (2018)
Conference Proceeding
© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are becoming ubiquitously available, being embedded both into everyday mobility via smartphones, and into the life of the home via 'assistant' devices. Yet, exactly how use... Read More about Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life.
Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks (2018)
Journal Article
Feedback is valuable for allowing us to improve on tasks. While retrospective feedback can help us improve for next time, feedback “in action” can allow us to improve the outcome of on-going tasks. In this paper, we use data from functional Near Infr... Read More about Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks.
Understanding is key: an analysis of factors pertaining to trust in a real-world automation system (2018)
Journal Article
Objective: This paper aims to explore the role of factors pertaining to trust in real-world automation systems through the application of observational methods in a case study from the railway sector. Background: Trust in automation is widely acknow... Read More about Understanding is key: an analysis of factors pertaining to trust in a real-world automation system.
How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Recent work has demonstrated that functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy has the potential to measure changes in Mental Workload with increasing ecological validity. It is not clear, however, whether these measurements are affected by anxiety and stre... Read More about How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload.
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.
A novel spatiotemporal home heating controller design: system emulation and field testing (2018)
Journal Article
We have developed a spatiotemporal heating control algorithm for use in homes. This system utilises a combination of relatively low-tech hardware interfaced with electric heating systems and a smartphone interface to this hardware, and a central serv... Read More about A novel spatiotemporal home heating controller design: system emulation and field testing.
Identifying rail asset maintenance processes: a human-centric and sensemaking approach (2018)
Journal Article
Efficient asset maintenance is key for delivering services such as transport. Current rail maintenance processes have been mostly reactive with a recent shift towards exploring proactive modes. The introduction of new ubiquitous technologies and adva... Read More about Identifying rail asset maintenance processes: a human-centric and sensemaking approach.
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?.
Physiological parameter response to variation of mental workload (2017)
Journal Article
Previous studies have examined how individual physiological measures respond to changes in mental demand and subjective reports of mental workload. This study explores the response of multiple physiological parameters, measured simultaneously and qua... Read More about Physiological parameter response to variation of mental workload.
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.
"Do animals have accents?": Talking with agents in multi-party conversation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
In this paper we unpack the use of conversational agents, or so-called intelligent personal assistants (IPAs), in multi- party conversation amongst a group of friends while they are socialising in a café. IPAs such as Siri or Google Now can be found... Read More about "Do animals have accents?": Talking with agents in multi-party conversation.
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.