Dr Miles Richardson
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Job title: Reader in Cognitive Ergonomics and Programme Leader MSc Ergonomics
Email: m.richardson@derby.ac.uk
Personal website: Personal Site
Phone No: 01332 593056
Room: N202a
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Recent publications
Brown, S.L., Richardson, M., Wright, E. and Qualter, P. (2012). The Effect of Distressing Imagery on Attention to and Persuasiveness of an Anti-Alcohol Message: An Gaze-Tracking Approach. Health Education and Behavior, 39, 8-17.
Richardson, M. (2011). Assembly complexity and the design of self-assembly products. Chapter for Handbook of Human Factors in Consumer Product Design.
Richardson, M., Jones, G., Croker, S. and Brown, S.l. (2011). Identifying the task characteristics that predict children's construction task performance. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25(3), 377-385.
Richardson, M. and Ball, L.J. (2009). Internal representations, external representations and ergonomics: toward a theoretical integration. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 10(4), 335-376.
Jones, G., and Richardson, M. (2007). An objective examination of consumer perception of nutrition information based on healthiness ratings and eye movements. Public Health Nutrition, 10, 238-244.
Richardson, M., Jones, G., Torrance, M. and Baguley, T. (2006). Identifying the task variables that predict object assembly difficulty. Human Factors, 48(3), 511-525.
Richardson, M., Jones, G. and Torrance, M. (2004). Identifying the task variables that influence perceived object assembly complexity. Ergonomics, 47(9), 945-964.
Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences
School: School of Science
Subject Area: Psychology
I initially trained and worked in engineering for Rolls-Royce plc before studying ergonomics at Loughborough University. I then worked as an ergonomist/human factors specialist for Thomson-Marconi Sonar Systems ensuring that the companies systems were compatible with human characteristics. I left to join Derby where I completed my PhD part time in 2004 and launched the MSc Ergonomics in 2005.
Teaching responsibilities
Programme Leader for the distance learning MSc Ergonomics.
Research interests
Interests are in mental representations, extended mind, cognitive ergonomics and technical and person based factors in human performance and behaviour (e.g. complexity of self-assembly tasks, nutrition labels and pro-environmental behaviour). The main focus of my research at present is children's construction play and the psychological rewards of the natural landscape.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
Registered Member of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Additional Interests and Activities
Nature writing and creative non-fiction; my forthcoming book Needwood, takes a simple journey into the local countryside and pulls out of it, a universal story about our connection to nature and the landscape. For further information see www.needwood.net
Media experience
Radio and press.
Undergraduate qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Ergonomics, Loughborough University
Research qualifications
- PhD - Identifying the task variables that influence object assembly complexity, University of Derby
