Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science

We have just released our report presenting systems analyses of 12 months worth of led outdoor recreation incident data. The data was reported by organisations in the led outdoor recreation sector through our newly developed UPLOADS incident reporting and learning system. The incidents covered include injury incidents, illness incidents, and near misses. UPLOADS was developed … More Report on Rasmussen-inspired analysis of led outdoor recreation incidents

2016 has begun with a bang for the Centre, with an important new additions and some important new directions! First I would like to introduce you all to our two new recruits: Dr Vanessa Beanland and Amanda Clacy. Vanessa is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) holder who joins the Centre … More New additions and new directions

Input required from Led Outdoor Activity practitioners The UPLOADS project is a major collaboration between the Australian led outdoor activity sector, the University of the Sunshine Coast, and Federation University. The ultimate aim is to better understand and prevent the injury incidents that occur during led outdoor activities. Click here to see our valued project partners and … More Evaluation of injury prevention strategies required

Professor Neville Stanton (University of Southampton) and Associate Professor Guy Walker (Heriot Watt University) are currently visiting the centre to work on a range of projects, papers, books and new ideas. As part of the visit we recently headed to USC’s Dilli Village at Fraser Island to conduct some pilot work for our forthcoming beach driving study. … More Centre hosts UK Boffins

Our latest Ergonomics journal article examines whether Ergonomics methods are still fit for purpose given the shifting problem space and strong move towards systems thinking in Ergonomics applications. The link below gives free access to the full article for the first 50 people. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/haxWa8MxnZcNmv92BCYE/full Enjoy reading it and we would love to hear your thoughts Professor … More Are Ergonomics methods still fit for purpose? Free access to our latest article

Recently I was asked to give an interview in which I was asked for my opinions on corruption in sport. Here are my answers to the questions posed. 1. Sport is huge business these days, how is money driving corruption? I think a recent paper I read said as a global enterprise sport is worth $150 … More 8 Questions on Corruption in Sport

As part of a major Australian Research Council funded Linkage research program we have been applying Cognitive Work Analysis to understand behaviour at rail level crossings and then design new safer rail level crossing environments. In Australia since 2000 there have been well over 100 fatalities resulting from collisions at rail level crossings between trains and … More Free access to our latest paper on Cognitive Work Analysis and rail level crossings

The Centre’s first two Psychology honours students from the University of the Sunshine Coast have both achieved a first class honours grade for their research thesis! A huge congratulations to Ji Kee Leong and Katelyn Dawson! Ji Kee used our driving simulator to examine driver situation awareness, in particular the ability of drivers with and without … More Driver situation awareness and AFL concussion Psychology honours research projects achieve first class honours grades

We are currently advertising for a research fellow position within our sport and outdoor recreation theme at the Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems. The successful candidate will work across a range of projects within the Sports and Outdoor Education Theme, with the primary focus being our recently funded Australian Research Council Linkage Project, “From data … More Research Fellow in Sport and Outdoor Recreation Position Available

“Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of Human Factors methods” (Darth Walker, 2015) One of our close collaborators, Dr Guy Walker, is using Star Wars in conjunction with our Human Factors methods textbook to teach engineering undergraduates about assessing … More Centre collaborator teaches resilience through star wars and human factors methods