Accessible Academics :
Dr Graham Edgar
I have over 30 years experience working as a cognitive psychologist and psychophysicist specialising in visual perception and situation awareness that has included the development of a new technique for modelling and measuring situation awareness ( QASA – Quantitative Analysis of Situation Awareness ) that is now in use worldwide . I have conducted projects for the Highways Agency and Transport Research Laboratories to study optimisation of warning lighting for emergency vehicles and have been principal investigator on projects studying situation awareness in a number of contexts .
I have worked with the local Road Safety Partnership on issues of driver distraction and with the Fire and Rescue Services in the UK , Poland , Denmark , Belgium , Spain , Estonia and the Netherlands on issues of vehicle conspicuity and situation awareness . I act as an expert witness on the perceptual and psychological aspects of road traffic accidents .
Contact Graham :
Email : Expertise : g . edgar @ glos . ac . uk
• Situation Awareness
• Situational Awareness
• Road Traffic Accidents
• Driver Distraction
• Firefighting
• Decision Making
• Driving and Mobile Telephones
Graham says …
“ Complex theories can be developed and tested in the laboratory but only when they are applied to ‘ reallife ’ situations is it possible to see if they work .”
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