Sarah Sharples

University of Nottingham

Dr Sarah Sharples is an associate professor in Human Factors in the School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Nottingham and Head of the Human Factors Research Group. She completed her PhD in 1999 on methodological and theoretical issues in the assessment of participants’ experiences of virtual environments. She has been a researcher, research manager or grant holder on a number of industrial, government and EU funded projects, including a long term programme of research for Network Rail examining implications, design and implementation of novel interfaces for railway control and use of rail simulation for human factors research. She has supervised PhD students in a range of areas, including situation awareness in virtual environments, impact of automation, use of handheld technologies and development of 3D information displays. She is a registered ergonomist, and her main areas of interest and expertise are Human-Computer Interaction, cognitive ergonomics and development of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies for examination of interaction with innovative technologies in complex systems.

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