Expert Details

Human Response to Auditory Alarms and Visual Warnings, Auditory Alarm Design

ID: 729025 United Kingdom

Expert is an internationally-reknowned research professor with extensive expertise and experience in the area of human responses to alarms and warnings. This includes both speech and non-speech (buzzer-type) auditory warnings and written warnings labels. She has a 25-year research career, including many publications, across these areas and has an in-depth understanding of the factors which affect how people respond to warnings and alarms. She has had a major influence in several ISO standards and other important technical documents related to alarms and warnings. Many of the alarms and warnings now seen and heard in public life have been generated either directly by Expert or by others using the evidence-based research she has carried out. She also has extensive experience of auditory alarm design in both industry and the public sector. She has designed auditory alarms for medical care, trains, aircraft and nuclear power stations. She has also advised on the design of written labels in many domains, including the medical domain.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 1983	Degree: PhD	Subject: Psychology	Institution: University of Warwick
Year: 1980	Degree: BA	Subject: Psychology and Music	Institution: University of Keele

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1985 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: Professor of Applied Psychology	Department: Psychology
Responsibilities: She is a research professor, carrying out a range of research projects within the warnings and alarms domain. She also teaches a range of topics on the undergraduate degree at the Employer
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1983 to 1985	Employer: Medical Research Council	Title: Post doctoral researcher	Department: Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge
Responsibilities: She was employed as a post-doctoral researcher which entailed carrying out her own programme of work

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
Member of the UK Experimental Psychology Society

Professional Appointments
Chair, Team 2 (Noise and Communication) International Congress on the Biological Effects of Noise 2003-2008 Associate Editor, Ergonomics, 1995-200 Editorial Boards: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied and Human Factors Member of various warnings standards committees

Publications and Patents Summary
She has written over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, more than 100 conference papers and three books. Alarms designed for a wide range of customers and other work (an alarms assessment tool and sound library) for other customers

Additional Experience

Training / Seminars
She has developed an alarms and alerts assessment tool with accompanying sound library for the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board which will be used as a tool for railway experts to develop and review alerting systems

Marketing Experience
She has designed alarms for rail, aircraft, medical care and nuclear power stations. She has designed design aids for people who might need to develop alarm systems. She has done similar work for written warning labels

Fields of Expertise

alarm system, alarm system design, buzzer, drug warning, printed warning label, warning system, fire alarm system