Projects
CHI+MED
From October 2009 - CHI+MED (EP/G059063/1)
Previous Projects
Healthy Interactive Systems
March 2009 - September 2009: Jonathan was funded on the UCLIC / FIT Lab EPSRC “Healthy Interactive Systems” platform grant (EP/G004560/1), which supports work on resilient, usable and appropriate systems in healthcare. Alongside extending his foundational work on cognitive resilience, Jonathan established several useful contacts within the healthcare domain, and organised a workshop on interactive medical devices. He brought together clinicians, practitioners, and researchers so that progress can be made towards understanding cognitive resilience, and how even simple design changes to devices can impact on the likelihood of human error.
The design & use of complex information spaces
November 2007 - February 2009: UCLIC's original platform grant (GR/S73723) supported work on the science and understanding of complex systems that are reliable, usable and fit well in the context of use. Jonathan was able to use this opportunity to write proposals that built on work that he undertook during the Human error Modelling Project. This work contributed to proposals that led to the platform grant renewal (EP/G004560/1) and the CHI+MED programme grant (EP/G059063/1) being awarded. Two other funding attempts were unsuccessful.
HUman error Modelling project (HUM)
October 2004 - October 2007: During the HUman error Modelling project microworlds were developed that could be used to test the extent to which cognitive load influenced the systematicity of human error. Jonathan's goal was to deliver results at a suitable level of abstraction that enabled his project colleagues Rukšėnas and Curzon to further extend our formal user model. Further work revealed that some individuals develop a cognitive resilience to slips. This resilience seems to be dependent on an individual being able to engage in a reflective process.
Teaching & Consultancy
2003 - 2004: Jonathan undertook part-time work at Loughborough University as a lecturer and tutorial leader. He was involved in the planning and teaching of sessions in user-centred information systems and information science. In addition Jonathan was a part-time interaction design consultant for Nanyang University, Singapore.
Predicting the Utility of Relevance Feedback
2000 - 2003: Jonathan was awarded funding by the AHRC (studentship competition) to do his Ph.D. research at Loughborough University. His Ph.D. thesis applied Cognitive Load Theory to identify one of the reasons why users find it difficult to assign relevance judgements to information. Ref: Back, J., (2004). Predicting the Utility of Relevance Feedback using Cognitive Load Theory. Ph.D. thesis, Loughborough University. Summary chapter (PDF)