Human-Centred Design

I've been getting back on my bike lately, after a long absence that I'd like to say was enforced through some sort of heroic injury, but it's really just down to laziness. Anyway, it's been getti...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2010/05/bicycle-ergonomics.html

Hot on the heels (well, at least warm on the heels) of my last post about texting and driving, news from the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas is that Ford is blazing a trail with a whole new ra...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2010/01/driver-distractons-next-generation.html

Okay, so I'm catching up on stuff after the Christmas break, but this is one paper that's made quite a splash - I'm certainly not the first to be blogging about it.  The latest issue of the ...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2010/01/texting-while-driving.html

At the end of every year, there always seems to be a contagion of top 10 (or 100, or 1000) lists in the media reviewing the previous 12 months - usually on TV, featuring various rent-a-quote none...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2010/01/review-of-decade.html

So 2009 is coming to an end, and with it I think a rather successful 60th anniversary year for the Ergonomics Society - or should I say, the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (IEHF), for ...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/12/end-of-60th.html

Well, it's finally arrived - all of our hard work over the last year or so has paid off, and the Ergonomics: Real Design exhibition at London's Design Museum is now open.There was a media preview...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/11/ergonomics-real-design.html

I just couldn't resist following up with this little tidbit I heard on the Chris Evans show on Radio 2, on the way home from my driving meeting I just blogged about. His theme for the show was re...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/11/human-centred-ketchup.html

I’ve been playing with new cars again today – one of the few perks of the job which crop up from time to time. I can’t give too much away as it was a closed meeting, but most of the cars an...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-cars-new-toys.html

I had the privilege this week of presenting at the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety's (PACTS) conference on 'Beyond 2010: the challenges ahead'. This was largely centred around...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/10/ghosts-of-transport-yet-to-come.html

Last week I attended the First International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention, held at Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg. The site is next door to Chalmers University, which i...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/10/distracted-and-inattentive.html

I don’t feel right snaffling someone else’s blog posts, but I just had to pick up on this gem from Tom Vanderbilt, as it’s so close to my own research interests. (Tom’s is an excellent bl...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/08/autopian-future.html

Yesterday I went to the inaugural meeting of the Ergonomics Society’s newest Special Interest Group (SIG) – the Driving Ergonomics SIG. This was hosted at Cranfield University, though the SIG...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/08/driving-ergonomics-special-interest.html

So this is slightly old news now, but seeing as I've finally got over the jet lag and on top of my inbox, I'm just about in a position to tell you about the Human-Computer Interaction Internation...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/07/hci-international-2009.html

As I'm sure many others do, I subscribe to Google's news alerts looking out for media stories on ergonomics and/or human factors. When I first signed up, there wasn't a lot of activity, and the s...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/07/ergonomics-in-news.html

I’ve been getting a bit more into this blogging lark, realising that it’s more about participation in the ‘blogosphere’ than just standing on a soapbox. Preaching to the converted for any...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/07/human-factors-is-back-in-business.html

I’ve been to a couple of events this week that have inspired me to think more about how to engage a wider public with ergonomics and human-centred design issues.The first was the British Scienc...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/06/armchair-ergonomists.html

Something I’ve been meaning to post on since I saw it a month ago, is a story on ergoweb with a new perspective on the perennial problem of driver distractions from mobile phones. As the articl...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/06/distracted-drivers.html

No prizes for guessing what this post is about – last week we took a sample of the Real World Design exhibition to the Cheltenham Festival of Science as a sneak preview for them and a test run ...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/06/cheltenham-festival-of-science.html

I've been meaning to mention this in my blog for a while, but other newsworthy things have been happening to report on. Anyway, the UK's Department for Transport currently has open a consultation...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/05/safer-way-road-safety-consultation.html

On Tuesday evening this week I had the pleasure of attending the Ergonomics Society Annual Lecture, given by Professor Rob Stammers of the University of Leicester, on 'Kenneth Craik: a progenitor...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/05/ergonomics-society-annual-lecture.html

It’s been another busy week, with a couple of interesting days providing great opportunities to wave the flag for human-centred design and ergonomics.On Tuesday I gave a presentation at the Des...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/05/museums-and-conferences.html

I'm fortunate enough to be involved with various groups through my work with the Ergonomics Society, one of which is the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS), as I sit on t...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/05/crash-proof-cars.html

It must be the season for events, as hot on the heels of the Ergonomics Society Anniversary Conference last week, this week it was Brunel University’s turn to steal a little limelight with a ma...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/05/grand-opening.html

The highlight of this week has to be the Ergonomics Society 60th Anniversary Conference, held Wednesday and Thursday at the Royal College of Physicians just by The Regent’s Park in London.Actua...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/04/ergonomics-society-anniversary.html

Well, I had a break for Easter, but the tide of technology marches on. At the risk of seeming repetitive, I have another three-part list of interesting car technology stories that have made the n...

http://humancentreddesign.blogspot.com/2009/04/driving-technology.html