University of New South Wales - School of Risk and Safety Sciences

MSc, BSc, FHFESA, CPE, RegMES, MHFES
Phone : 938 55680
Email : roger.hall@unsw.edu.au

GENERAL

Roger R Hall is a lecturer in Ergonomics & HCI, and the Ergonomics Program Authority with the School of Safety Science at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He teaches ergonomics to postgraduate ergonomics and oh&s professionals, and undergraduate industrial designers. He runs a Usability laboratory with a touch screen interface prototyping facility (since 1992) and was featured in the ABC TV's The Investigators "Hi-Tech in the Home" program in August 1993.

He is a Fellow, CPE and former President of the Human factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA) and former national Chair of CHISIG, the Society's special interest group on human-computer interaction. He was Congress Chair of IEA 88, the 10th triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and Chair of OZCHI 91, the CHISIG annual conference.

In 2002 Roger was awarded the ESA Society Medal for outstanding service to and promotion of the Society. In 1997 he was awarded the ESA Cumming Memorial medal for an esteemed Australian ergonomist making a significant contribution to the ergonomics discipline and presented a keynote lecture to the 1997 ESA Annual conference (Hall, 1997). In 2001 & 2002 he jointly won the ESA Alan Welford Award for the best ergonomics paper by a member of the Society, published in a refereed journal (see Refereed Articles below).

In the last five years he has been a consultant to Qantas Airways, Commonwealth Bank, Australia Post, and to Design Resource, a leading Australian industrial design company.

His background is in experimental psychology and visual ergonomics and for of driving at night. His research interests now include ergonomics & design many years did Australian Road Research Board funded research on visual problems issues of new technology, including usability, the human-technology interface, prototyping and the design process. Please refer to the following list of Publications for further details of research work.

PUBLICATIONS

The publications are grouped under the following headings:

Refereed Articles (22)
Books (4)
Chapters in a Book (2)
Conference Papers (16)
Reports (6)
Unpublished Papers & Public Presentations (12).

REFEREED ARTICLES

Hall R R (2001). Prototyping for usability of new technology. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 55(4), pp 485-501. Winner (shared) of the Ergonomics Society of Australia‘s Alan Welford Award for 2002 – best published paper on ergonomics.
Gardner D and Hall R R (2001). Web-based training for OHS professionals: some issues. Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand 17(6), pp 625-631.
Long J and Hall R R (2000). Readability of information road signs. Road and Transport Research 9(4), pp 11-19. . Winner of the Ergonomics Society of Australia‘s Alan Welford Award for 2001 – best published paper on ergonomics.
Hall R R, Zinser S and Keller P (1998). The Usability of time setting functions on small electronic consumer products - a test. International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics 3(2), pp 101-114.
Hall R R (1997). Ergonomics, design and new technology. The Cumming Memorial Lecture - Invited keynote. In Productivity, Ergonomics and Safety, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual conference of the Ergonomics Society of Australia, November, 1997, Gold Coast, Queensland, (Canberra, Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc), pp 53-62.
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1986). Luminance, uniformity and glare in road lighting - some more equal than others? Australian Road Research 16(3), pp 184-193.
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1985). The lighting of curves on arterial roads. Lighting Research and Technology 17(3), pp 129-137.
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1985). The lighting of curves. In `Providing visibility and visual guidance to the road user'. Transportation Research Record No. 297, pp 27-28.
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1982). Aids in Night Driving. Australian Journal of Optometry 65(5), pp 194-195.
Hall R R (Ed) (1980). The design and implementation of fixed lighting for arterial roads and freeways. Australian Road Research Board Research Report No. ARR 106.
Hall R R and Fisher A J (1980). Freeway lighting: analysis of installation performance and cost. Australian Road Research Board Special Report No. SR 18.
Hall R R (1979). The delineation of rural roads and curve negotiation at night. Australian Road Research Board Research Report No. ARR 103.
Hall R R and Fisher A J (1978). Measures of visibility and visual performance in road lighting. Australian Road Research Board Research Report No. ARR 74.
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1978). The effect of presence lights on the detection of change of vehicle headway. Australian Road Research 8(2), pp 13-16.
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1978). Motorists' information needs and freeway lighting levels. Proceedings of the 9th Australian Road Research Board Conference 9(5), pp 334-343.
Hall R R (1976). CIE standard luminance program for the calculation of luminance in road lighting design - Users reference manual. Australian Road Research Board Research Report No. ARR 63.
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1976). Road lighting levels based on detection of change of visual angle. Lighting Research and Technology 8(4), pp 187-194.
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1973). The effect on vision of terminations and isolated lengths of fixed lighting. Australian Road Research 5(4), pp 34-39. (reprinted in the IES Lighting Review 38(5) -1976).
Hall R R and Fisher A J (1972). Some factors affecting the trauma of pedestrians involved in road accidents. Medical Journal of Australia 1(7), pp 313-317. (also presented to the Forty-third ANZAAS Congress, Brisbane, 1971).
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1972). The influence of car frontal design on pedestrian accident trauma. Accident Analysis and Prevention Vol 4, pp 47-58.
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1970). Road user reaction to the town driving headlight beam. Proceedings of the 5th Australian Road Research Board Conference 5(3), pp 252-265.
Fisher A J, Hall R R and Halfacree, R.S. (1970). Control of disability glare from street lighting lanterns. Proceedings of the 5th Australian Road Research Board Conference 5(3), pp 234-251.

BOOKS

Hammond J H, Hall R R and Kaplan I (eds) (1991). People Before Technology, Proceedings of OZCHI 91, the CHISIG Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, 28-29 November, 1991 (Canberra, CHISIG).
Adams A S, Hall R R, McPhee B J and Oxenburgh M S (eds) (1988). Ergonomics International 88 - Proceedings of Designing a Better World, the Tenth Congress of the International Ergonomics Association. (London, Taylor & Francis).
Hall R R and Hoffmann E R (eds) (1988). Perspectives from Australia. Ergonomics 31(5) - special issue, (London, Taylor & Francis).
Hall R R (1975). The effect on perception of the luminance pattern of visual fields. MSc Thesis, University of New South Wales.

CHAPTERS IN A BOOK

Hall R R (1998). Usability and product design, in Jordan P and Green W (eds,) Ergonomics, usability and product development. (London, Taylor & Francis, in press), pp 85-91.
Hall, R R.(1990). Three Mile Island nuclear crisis, in Occupational Health and Safety for Engineers: a Resource for Engineering Education. (Canberra, AGPS), 29 pp.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Hall R R (1999). Experimental design issues in CADPRO. In Jeffery D R and Offen R J (eds). CADPRO - Experiments in CASE tool use and constraint conditions, Proceedings of the 1999 CADPRO Workshop, 25 September 1999, pp 26-29.
Hall R R (1998). Ergonomics course accreditation. Proceedings of the 34 th Annual conference of the Ergonomics Society of Australia, 5-7 October 1998, Melbourne (Canberra, Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc), pp 269-270.
Lindgaard G and Hall R R (1998). Methods and standards in human-computer interaction. Proceedings of the 34 th Annual conference of the Ergonomics Society of Australia, 5-7 October 1998, Melbourne (Canberra, Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc), pp 185-189
Gardner D and Hall R R (1998). Issues in distance education. Proceedings of the 4 th Australian and New Zealand Association of Occupational Health and Safety Educators, 13-14 February 1998, Brisbane, pp 51-57.
Hall RR and Keller P (1997). Usability - a case study in evaluating time setting. In Seppala P, Luopajarvi T, Nygard C-H and Mattila M (eds), From Experience to Innovation, Proceedings of the 13th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, 29 June - 4 July 1997, Tampere Finland. (Helsinki, IEA Press), pp 144-146.
Gardner D, Hall R R and Cross J (1997). Distance education in ergonomics. Proceedings of the 5th Southeast Asian Ergonomics Society Conference, 6-8 November 1997, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, IEA Press), pp 182-186.
Shikdar A, Das B and Hall R R (1997). Ergonomics and worker productivity: a case study with a repetitive manufacturing task. In Productivity, Ergonomics and Safety, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual conference of the Ergonomics Society of Australia, 24-27 November, 1997, Gold Coast, Queensland, (Canberra, Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc), 5 pp on CD ROM.
Adams, A S and Hall, R R. (1992). Design of visual displays in ticket vending machines. In Work With Display Units, Proceedings of the Third International Scientific Conference on Work with Display Units, 1-4 September 1992, Berlin, pp E24-25.
Hall, R R. (1989). CARL - An example of a software interface, in HCI Australia '89, the Proceedings of the Annual Ergonomics Society of Australia CHISIG Conference, 23-24 November, 1989, (Melbourne, Telecom Australia Research Labs), pp 29 -36.
Fisher A J, Hall R R, Ton T T, and Whittemore J. (1989). A user friendly, knowledge-based software for road lighting design. Proceedings of Lux Pacifica, the First Pacific Basin Lighting Conference, Shanghai, China.
Fisher A J, Hall R R, Ton T T, and Whittemore J. (1988). Introducing CARL, son of STAN - whizzkid of road lighting software. Proceedings of the 34th IES National Convention, pp 21-25.
Hall R R (1984). SAA STAN: A computer program to evaluate road lighting performance. Proceedings of the Microcomputers for Transport Seminar, Melbourne and Sydney, Pak-Poy and Kneebone Pty Ltd Adelaide, and Proceedings of the Computers in Civil Engineering Seminar, University of NSW.
Hall R R (1982). ARRB Project 267: Retro-reflective delineation of rural traffic areas; and Post mounted delineators and raised pavement markers. In Jenkins, S E (Ed). Proceedings of the Roadway Delineation and Pavement Markings Workshop. Australian Road Research Board Internal Report No. AIR 000-188.
Hall R R (1978). Ergonomics - a perspective. Proceedings 15th Annual Conference, Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand, pp 117-119.
Hall R R (1977). The town driving light. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand, pp 71-75. (also presented to the annual conference of the Illuminating Engineering Societies of Australia - 1977).
Hall R R, Vaughan R G and Fisher A J (1974). Pedestrian crash trauma and vehicle design in New South Wales. Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Automotive Safety, 15-17 July, San Francisco, Vol 1, pp 7-1 to 7-38.

REPORTS

Hall R R (1987). Cost effective prevention of illness and injury in the working environment. Report for the Director of Inspection Services, Department of Industrial Relations and Employment, NSW.
Hall R R and Fisher A J (1984). Lighting of bends on urban traffic routes. UNICIV Report No. R-220, School of Civil Engineering , University of NSW.
Hall R R (1983). DELINE8: A computer program to calculate the visibility of retroreflective roadway delineators. Australian Road Research Board Internal Report No. AIR 267-2.
Hall R R et al. (1983). The occupational health aspects of visual display units and electric and electronic typewriters in the University of New South Wales. Report of University Working Party, University of NSW.
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1972). Road accidents in Australia involving pedestrians. Submission to the House of Representatives Select Committee on Road Safety, July.
Hall R R and Fisher A J (1969). The relationship between injuries to pedestrians and frontal design of motor vehicles involved in collision with pedestrians. Three part report to the Department of Motor Transport, NSW.

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Hall R R (2001). Prototyping for usability of new technology. Ergonomics Society of Australia (WA) Scientific meeting, 20 November, Curtin University of Technology, Perth..
Hall R R (2001). Prototyping for usability of new technology. Ergonomics Society of Australia (NSW) Scientific meeting, 7 March, University of NSW.
Hall R R (2000). Designing for usability. Unpublished presentation to the HUSAT Human Factors 2000 conference, 7-8 September, Loughborough University of Technology.
Hall R R (2000). Usability, design and new technology or why can’t we use the new office photocopier. CHISIG Scientific Meeting, 22 February, University of Technology, Sydney
Hall R R (1999). Prototyping computer based consumer products – a case study. CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences HAIL seminar, 21 September, Macquarie University.
Hall R R (1996). Ergonomics and new technology. Ergonomics Society of Australia (WA) Scientific Meeting, November, Curtin University of Technology, Perth.
Hall R R (1992). User centred design of computer based products. Department of Human Sciences Research Colloquium, November, Loughborough University of Technology.
Hall R R (1992). Design of visual displays in ticket vending machines. Derby/Loughborough Medical Research Club meeting, December, Derby UK.
Hall R R (1989). Visual Ergonomics. Optometric Vision Research Foundation, Perspectives in Optometry program for final year UNSW Optometry Students, July.
Hall R R (1989). Three Mile Island - the Human Factors Implications. School of Psychology Research Colloquium, August, University of NSW.
Hall R R and Fisher A J (1976). Reaction time, visual performance and lighting performance. Paper to the 13th Annual Conference of the Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand (19pp, unpublished).
Fisher A J and Hall R R (1970). Some factors affecting the trauma of pedestrians involved in road accidents. Paper to the 7th Annual Conference of the Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand (14 pp, unpublished).