Research interests
Interests:
- Human Factors in Transport
- Transport Psychology
- Applied Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology, Memory, Attention, Situational Awareness, Workload, Mental Models and how automation affects these things
- Human Factors methods including Hierarchical Task Analysis, Cognitive Work Analysis
Past Research Activities
- Live Science Researcher at the Science Museum, investigating how neuroscientific information affects people’s perceptions of blameworthiness in criminals
- Research Assistant at the National Theatre, investigating how neuroscientific information affects people’s perceptions of blameworthiness in criminals
- Research Assistant at Royal Holloway University of London, investigating how gender effects people’s eye movements
Past Projects
- BSc Third Year Project was an experiment investigating how familiarity and expressiveness effects one’s ability to identify people’s identity from their voices.
- MSc Dissertation was a distraction validation study, looking at whether eye movement measures including the frequency and duration of glances towards touchscreens had absolute and relative validity in a driving simulator.
PhD research
Supervisors: Professor Neville Stanton, Dr Katie Plant and Dr Kirsten Revell
PhD on designing, developing, testing and validating a training system to support drivers when they interact with Level 4 autonomous vehicles.
Funded by Institute of Advanced Motorists and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Research group
Transportation Group
Affiliate research group
Human Factors Engineering
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