All Outputs (13)

Expert knowledge elicitation to generate human factors guidance for future European rail traffic management system (ERTMS) train driving models (2017)
Journal Article
Naghiyev, A., Sharples, S., Ryan, B., Coplestone, A., & Carey, M. (2017). Expert knowledge elicitation to generate human factors guidance for future European rail traffic management system (ERTMS) train driving models. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 231(10), 1141-1149. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954409717695902

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
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Sharples, S. (2017). "Do animals have accents?": Talking with agents in multi-party conversation. In CSCW '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing: Proceedings (207-219). https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998298

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
Howard, S., Lang, A. R., Sharples, S., & Shaw, D. E. (in press). What are the pros and cons of electronically monitoring inhaler use in asthma? A multistakeholder perspective. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 3(1), Article e000159. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2016-000159

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.

Using mobile phones in pub talk (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Sharples, S. (2016). Using mobile phones in pub talk. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2820014

We present the findings from a study of how people interleave mobile phone use with conversation in pubs. Our findings, informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, unpack the interactional methods through which groups of people in pubs oc... Read More about Using mobile phones in pub talk.

Encouraging serendipity in research: designing technologies to support connection-making (2016)
Journal Article
Kefalidou, G., & Sharples, S. (in press). Encouraging serendipity in research: designing technologies to support connection-making. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.01.003

Mobile applications have the ability to present information to users that is influenced by their surroundings, activities and interests. Such applications have the potential to influence the likelihood of individuals experiencing ‘serendipity’, throu... Read More about Encouraging serendipity in research: designing technologies to support connection-making.

Journey decision making: the influence on drivers of dynamic information presented on variable message signs (2015)
Journal Article
Sharples, S., Shalloe, S., Burnett, G., & Crundall, D. (2016). Journey decision making: the influence on drivers of dynamic information presented on variable message signs. Cognition, Technology and Work, 18(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-015-0362-y

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.

Usability of Geographic Information: current challenges and future directions (2013)
Journal Article
Brown, M., Sharples, S., Harding, J., Parker, C., Bearman, N., Maguire, M., …Jackson, M. (2013). Usability of Geographic Information: current challenges and future directions. Applied Ergonomics, 44(6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2012.10.013

The use of Geographic Information or GI, has grown rapidly in recent years. Previous research has identified the importance of usability and user centred design in enabling the proliferation and exploitation of GI. However, the design and developme... Read More about Usability of Geographic Information: current challenges and future directions.

Introducing PEGI: a usability process for the practical evaluation of Geographic Information (2013)
Journal Article
Brown, M., Sharples, S., & Harding, J. (2013). Introducing PEGI: a usability process for the practical evaluation of Geographic Information. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 71(6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.01.004

As the use of Geographic Information (GI) is becoming more widespread, the usability of GI is being recognised as an important issue. However, exploring the usability of information products brings with it a range of problems that are not easily han... Read More about Introducing PEGI: a usability process for the practical evaluation of Geographic Information.

Participant experiences of mobile device-based diary studies (2013)
Journal Article
Sun, X., Golightly, D., Cranwell, J., Bedwell, B. D., & Sharples, S. (2013). Participant experiences of mobile device-based diary studies. International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.4018/jmhci.2013040104

Mobile device-based diary studies have potential as contextual data capture methods that address the limitations of the traditional paper-based diary method. While there have been a number of studies that demonstrate the power of the mobile device-ba... Read More about Participant experiences of mobile device-based diary studies.

The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research (2012)
Book Chapter
Keane, D., Lang, A. R., Craven, M. P., & Sharples, S. (2012). The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research. In V. G. Duffy (Ed.), Advances in human aspects of healthcare. San Franciso, USA: CRC Press

Improving healthcare requires engaging with clinicians and patients in order to better understand their needs and expectations. Research methods that are used to conduct healthcare research are selected on the basis of study objectives and practicali... Read More about The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research.

Development of a technique for predicting the human response to an emergency situation (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Lawson, G., Sharples, S., Clarke, D., & Cobb, S. (2009). Development of a technique for predicting the human response to an emergency situation.

This paper presents development work on a new approach for predicting the human response to an emergency situation. The study builds upon an initial investigation in which 20 participants were asked to predict what actions they would take in the eve... Read More about Development of a technique for predicting the human response to an emergency situation.

Predicting the human response to an emergency (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Lawson, G., Sharples, S., Cobb, S., & Clarke, D. (2009). Predicting the human response to an emergency.

This paper presents a case study of an approach for predicting the human response to a domestic fire, using a combination of a talk-through technique (Kirwan and Ainsworth, 1992) and sequential analysis (Bakeman and Gottman, 1986). 20 participants w... Read More about Predicting the human response to an emergency.

Adolescent participation in HTA: the identification of appropriate proxies for adolescent user needs of medical devices
Conference Proceeding
Lang, A. R., Martin, J. L., Sharples, S., & Crowe, J. A. Adolescent participation in HTA: the identification of appropriate proxies for adolescent user needs of medical devices.