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Professor Penelope Sanderson

Professor - Psychology
School of Psychology
+61 7 334 69529
+61 7 336 52097
McElwain Building (24A)
Level 1, Room 123
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Researcher biography

Lay detail

  • Professor of Cognitive Engineering and Human Factors (Joint appointment: School of Psychology, School of ITEE, School of Medicine)
  • Leader, Cognitive Engineering Research Group (CERG).
  • Leader, Cognitive Systems Engineering Group, School of ITEE.
  • Responsible for development and operation of the University of Queensland Usability Laboratory (UQUL).
  • Director of ARC Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology.
  • Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
  • Fellow of the USA-based Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Background:

  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-2006.
  • Professor of Computer Science (HCI), Swinburne University of Technology, 1997-2001.
  • Assistant and then tenured Associate Professor of Psychology, M&IE, and Aviation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985-1996.

Editorial responsibilities

  • Associate Editor, Human Factors, 2014-present.
  • Regional Editor, Cognition Technology and Work, 2000-present.
  • Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2005-2011, 2013-present
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 2005-present.
  • Editorial Board, Human Factors, 1986-1997 and 2005-2013.
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied: 2012-2013.
  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2002-2005.

Publications

Book Chapters (3)
Journal Articles (91)
Conference Papers (98)
Research Reports (2)

Book Chapters

Introduction and overview
The trojan horse of the operating room: Alarms and the noise of anesthesia
Cognitive Work Analysis

Journal Articles

Applying social network analysis to the examination of interruptions in healthcare
Erratum: Effectiveness of enhanced pulse oximetry sonifications for conveying oxygen saturation ranges: a laboratory comparison of five auditory displays
Effectiveness of enhanced pulse oximetry sonifications for conveying oxygen saturation ranges: a laboratory comparison of five auditory displays
Spearcons for patient monitoring: laboratory investigation comparing earcons and spearcons
Interruptions, visual cues, and the microstructure of interaction: four laboratory studies
Using a sequence of earcons to monitor multiple simulated patients
Two sides to every story: The Dual Perspectives Method for examining interruptions in healthcare
Traditions of research into interruptions in healthcare: a conceptual review
The cognitive aids in medicine assessment tool (CMAT) applied to five neonatal resuscitation algorithms
Rasmussen and the boundaries of empirical evaluation
Improving the detectability of oxygen saturation level targets for preterm neonates: a laboratory test of tremolo and beacon sonifications
Continuous information displays for multiple patient monitoring
Time without ventilation during intubation in neonates as a patient-centred measure of performance
Incident analysis: A case study comparison of traditional and SAfER methods
The effectiveness of pulse oximetry sonification enhanced with tremolo and brightness for distinguishing clinically important oxygen saturation ranges: a laboratory study
The sounds of desaturation: A survey of commercial pulse oximeter sonifications
In the aftermath: Attitudes of anesthesiologists to aupportive strategies after an unexpected intraoperative patient death
The effect of two cognitive aid designs on team functioning during intra-operative anaphylaxis emergencies: A multi-centre simulation study
Novel pulse oximetry sonifications for neonatal oxygen saturation monitoring: a laboratory study
Comparison of the identification and ease of use of two alarm sound sets by critical and acute care nurses with little or no music training: a laboratory study
How do interruptions affect clinician performance in healthcare? Negotiating fidelity, control, and potential generalizability in the search for answers
Can the decision ladder framework help inform industry risk assessment processes?
The development and testing of SAfER: a resilience-based human factors method
Prospective memory in complex sociotechnical systems
A formative approach to the strategies analysis phase of cognitive work analysis
Emergency medical equipment storage: benefits of visual cues tested in field and simulated settings
Relative position vectors: an alternative approach to conflict detection in air traffic control
Development and validation of a multilevel model for predicting workload under routine and nonroutine conditions in an air traffic management center
Evaluating the generalizability of the Organisational Constraints Analysis framework: a hospital bed management case study
Prospective memory in the ICU: the effect of visual cues on task execution in a representative simulation
Ai@NICTA
Barriers to adverse event and error reporting in anesthesia
Toward open behavioral science
The accuracy of clinical assessments as a measure for teamwork effectiveness
Presenting video recordings of newborn resuscitations in debriefings for teamwork training
Interruption management in the Intensive Care Unit: Predicting resumption times and assessing distributed support
Clinicians can accurately assign Apgar scores to video recordings of simulated neonatal resuscitations
The ETTO principle and organizational strategies: A field study of ICU bed and staff management
Monitoring with head-mounted displays: A clinical evaluation in the operating room
Multisensory integration with a head-mounted display: Background visual motion and sound motion
Multisensory integration with a head-mounted display: The role of mental and manual load
Auditory displays in anesthesiology
Patient monitoring with head-mounted displays
Sonification Design for Complex Work Domains: Dimensions and Distractors
Interruptions in healthcare: Theoretical views
Monitoring with head-mounted displays: performance and safety in a full-scale simulator and part-task trainer
Current challenges and opportunities for better integration of human factors research with development of clinical Information Systems
Interruptions and blood transfusion checks: Lessons from the simulated operating room
Multisensory Integration With a Head-Mounted Display: Sound Delivery and Self-Motion
Advanced Auditory Displays and Head-Mounted Displays: Advantages and Disadvantages for Monitoring by the Distracted Anesthesiologist
Are Melodic Medical Equipment Alarms Easily Learned?
Overlapping melodic alarms are almost indiscriminable
Modeling and predicting mental workload in en route air traffic control: Critical review and broader implications
Designing for attention with sound: Challenges and extensions to ecological interface design
Investigating human-system interaction with an integrated hydropower and market system simulator
Evaluating functional displays for hydropower system: Model-based guidance of scenario design
Learnability and discriminability of melodic medical equipment alarms
The multimodal world of medical monitoring displays
The effects of ambient music on simulated anaesthesia monitoring
Advanced patient monitoring displays: Tools or continuous informing
Sonification supports eyes-free respiratory monitoring and task time-sharing
Tailoring reveals information requirements: the case of anaesthesia alarms
Minimal instrumentation may compromise failure diagnosis with an ecological interface
Sonification supports eyes-free respiratory monitoring and task time-sharing
Visual and auditory attention in patient monitoring: a formative analysis
Process monitoring and configural display design: a neuroimaging study
Designing teams for first-of-a-kind, complex systems using the initial phases of cognitive work analysis: Case study
Work domain analysis and sensors I: principles and simple example
Ecological interface design for pasteurizer II: A process description of semantic mapping
Work domain analysis and sensors II: Pasteurizer II case study
Anesthesia alarms in context: An observational study
Evaluating design proposals for complex systems with work domain analysis
Ecological interface design for anaesthesia monitoring
Work domain analysis for training-system definition and acquisition
Exploring sequential data: Commentary on Bowers, Jentsch, Salas, and Braun (1998)
Macshapa and the Enterprise of Exploratory Sequential Data-Analysis (esda)
Handling Complex Real-World Data with 2 Cognitive Engineering Tools - Cogent and Macshape
Introduction to This Special Issue On Exploratory Sequential Data-Analysis
Exploratory Sequential Data-Analysis - Foundations
The Complex Role of Perceptual Organization in Visual-Display Design Theory
On the Origins of the Skills, Rules, and Knowledge Framework - a Brief Comment
Cognitive Task-Analysis of a Complex Work Domain - a Case-Study
Emergent Features in Visual-Display Design for 2 Types of Failure-Detection Tasks
Heuristic and Statistical Support for Protocol Analysis with Shapa Version 2.01
Predicting Fault-Diagnosis Performance - Why Are Some Bugs Hard to Find
Knowledge Acquisition and Fault-Diagnosis - Experiments with Plault
The Human Planning and Scheduling Role in Advanced Manufacturing Systems - An Emerging Human-Factors Domain
State-Space and Verbal Protocol Methods for Studying the Human Operator in Process-Control
Shapa - An Interactive Software Environment for Protocol Analysis
Verbalizable Knowledge and Skilled Task-Performance - Association, Dissociation, and Mental Models
Object Displays Do Not Always Support Better Integrated Task-Performance

Conference Papers

Interruptions in the healthcare workplace: An alternative approach
The effect of a secondary task on identification accuracy of oxygen saturation ranges using an enhanced pulse oximetry sonification: A laboratory study
Novel pulse oximetry sonifications to improve eyes free monitoring: three laboratory studies
Tactile displays of pulse oximetry: an exploratory vigilance study
Peripheral detection for abrupt onset stimuli presented via head-worn display
Tactile displays of pulse oximetry in integrated and separated configurations
The effect of visual cues on how people handle interruptions
Industry perspectives on organisational resilience
Nurses' self-reported smartphone use during clinical care
The effect of individual differences on how people handle interruptions
An integrated approach to technical and human factors in risk management of ship-to-shore fuel transfers
Evaluating the redesign of an ICU bedside emergency equipment drawer
Detecting numerical and waveform changes on a head-mounted display vs. monitor
An organizational resilience-based human factors safety method: the development and testing of SAfER
Understanding healthcare processes: an evaluation of two process model notations
Envisioning healthcare work: Models for prospective evaluation of new systems
Building resilience in process operations
Developing and evaluating the Organisational Constraints Analysis (OCA) approach to analysing work coordination via resource allocation case studies
Observing the challenges of implementing new health ICT
Testing the prospective evalutation of a new health information system
Predicting the impact of adopting new technologies in healthcare facilities
Clinical assessment accuracy and pace of task execution as indicators of effective simulator-based team training (SBTT)
Using Brunswik’s probabilistic functionalism to test how clinicians make judgments in simulated neonatal resuscitation scenarios
Audiovisual capture of critical care work: Methods and challenges
Testing a model to help analysts understand, evaluate, and make inferences about health technology change
Evaluating the impact of technological change in a critical care unit: Towards a model to support stakeholder envisionment
Human factors hazard identification: Industrial testing of the HumHID technique and tool
Modelling the flow of information: Mapping the use of an electronic health record
Procurement of health information systems: A review of current practice
Two human-centered approaches to health informatics: Cognitive systems engineering and usability
Distractions and interruptions in the intensive care unit: A field observation and a simulator experiment
Prospective memory in intensive care nursing
Using a full-scale simulation environment to investigate how nurses remember future intentions
An integrated functional systems approach to improving diagnosis in complex process systems
Evaluating the multi-conflict display
Testing auditory alarm effectiveness with three different alarm sets
Using cognitive work analysis techniques to identify human factor hazards
Methods for gathering and analysing information seeking behaviour in electronic resource discovery systems
Patient transport cards support formal and information coordination in a hospital department
The accuracy of clinical assessments made by neonatal resuscitation team leaders in simulated scenarios
The power and the puzzles of auditory interfaces
Distributed Prospective Memory: An approach to understanding how nurses remember tasks
Head-mounted displays and multisensory integration: Replications and challenges
Patient monitoring in anesthesia with a head-mounted display: Simulator studies and a clinical trial
Clinical implementation of a head-mounted display of patient vital signs
Auditory alarms for medical equipment: How do we ensure they convey their meanings?
Work domain analysis for assessing simulated worlds for ATC studies
Multisensory integration with a head-mounted display and auditory display
Effects of interruptions on prospective memory performance in anesthesiology
Adapting Situational awareness measures for hydropower display evaluations
Patient Monitoring with a Head Mounted Display: A full-scale Simulator Study
Summative evaluation with a full-scale patient simulator: Challenges and adaptations
Investigating sources of mental workload using a high-fidelity ATC simulator
Studying complex human-system behaviour: Human-in-the-loop simulation requirements
Assessing displays for temporal control quality in hydropower systems
Designing and evaluating healthcare ICT Innovation: A cognitive engineering view
Auditory alarms, medical standards, and urgency
Does a head-mounted display worsen inattentional blindness?
Do mnemonics help nurses learn melodic medical equipment alarms?
Work domain analysis and ecological interface design for hydropower system monitoring and control
Testing new alarms for medical electrical equipment
From information content to auditory display with ecological interface design: Prospects and challenges
Clinical information use by medical and nursing staff in the ICU: Outcomes of a coded tables analysis
Applying the control adaptation method to a real-world system: Hydropower system example
Evaluating functional displays for hydropower system: Model-based guidance of scenario design
The efficient market hypothesis and electricity market efficiency test
A low-cost, easy-to-use, real-time power system simulator
Integrated power scheme simulator for human-system integration studies
The effect of music on monitoring a simulated anaesthetised patient with sonfication
Operating Theatre Patient Monitoring: The Effects of Self Paced Distracter Tasks and Experimental Control on Sonification Evaluations
Hydro Scheme Control in a Deregulated Environment: Cognitive Work Models and Design Implications
Using Cognitive Work Analysis to Develop a Capability for the Evaluation of Future Systems
Monitoring the Anaesthetised Patient: An Analysis of Confusions in Vital Sign Reports
An Alternative ADS for the Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Information Representations in the ICU
Evaluating an Information Display for Clinical Decision Making in the Intensive Care Unit
Exploring auditory displays to support anaesthesia monitoring: Six questions from a research program
Intelligibility of sonifications for respiratory monitoring in anesthesia
Use of cognitive work analysis across the system life cycle: From requirements to decommissioning
Work domain analysis workbench: Supporting cognitive work analysis as a systematic practice
Brain imaging studies of human interaction with well- and poorly-mapped configural displays
Ecological Interface Design for Anaesthesia Monitoring
Representation of changes to anesthesia work domain and activity structures
New technology and work practice: Modelling change with cognitive work analysis
Designing displays under ecological interface design: Towards operationalizing semantic mapping
Anesthesia alarms in surgical context
Towards a dynamic model of adaptation to technological change
Work domain analysis for the evaluation of human interaction with anaesthesia alarm systems
A direct perception display for rule-based behavior: Supporting power plant startup with a "lattice" display
Supporting cognitive work analysis with the work domain analysis workbench (WDAW)
Cognitive work analysis and the analysis, design, and evaluation of human-computer interactive systems
Introduction to symposium on cognitive work analysis
Work domain analysis of a pasteurization plant: Using abstraction hierarchies to analyze sensor needs
In and out of the loop: Strategic skill and windows of opportunity in discrete process control
The advising workbench: Participation-based development of a software environment to support student advising
Mapping the domain of electronic repair shops: A field study in fault diagnosis
Diagnosis of multiple faults in systems: Effects of fault difficulty, expectancy, and prior exposure
MacSHAPA: Software support for exploratory sequential data analysis
Alchemist - Support for Emergent Models of Work Practices in Collaborative Systems

Research Reports

Cognitive work analysis and defence futures
Incentives and Australians’ passport care