Miss Siobhan Emma Merriman BSc, MSc

Postgraduate Research Student in Human Factors Engineering

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Miss Siobhan Emma Merriman is a Postgraduate research student in Human Factors Engineering at the University of Southampton, within Engineering and Physical Sciences.

I am designing, developing, testing and validating a training system to support drivers when they interact with Level 4 autonomous vehicles

Qualifications

BSc Psychology with Honours at Royal Holloway University of London

MSc Human Factors and Ergonomics at The University of Nottingham

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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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Articles

Merriman, S. E., Plant, K. L., Revell, K., & Stanton, N. (2021). Challenges for automated vehicle driver training: A thematic analysis from manual and automated driving. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 76, 238-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2020.10.011
Revell, K., Parnell, K., Richardson, J., Pope, K., Fay, D., Merriman, S. E., & Plant, K. (2021). How can we close the gender data gap in transportation research? Ergonomics SA: Journal of the Ergonomics Society of South Africa, 32(1), 19-26. https://doi.org/10.4314/esa.v32i1.4
Merriman, S. E., Plant, K., Revell, K., & Stanton, N. (2021). What can we learn from Automated Vehicle collisions? A deductive thematic analysis of five Automated Vehicle collisions. Safety Science, 141, [105320]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105320

Miss Siobhan Emma Merriman
Room 4001, Building 176, Desk 87, Boldrewood Innovation Campus, University of Southampton, Burgess Road, Southampton, SO16 7QF

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