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Alison Kay - Visiting Research Assistant

Publications and Further Research Outputs

• J. Cahill, A. Kay, V. Howard, B. Mulcahy, M. Forde, S. George, E. Ziampra, F. Duffy, G. Lacey, F. Fitzpatrick, Personal protective equipment training & lived experience for healthcare staff during COVID-19, Clinical Infection in Practice, Volume 14, 2022 
• Looking After the Human Factor During Challenging Events, Senbursa, N., Handbook of Research on the Future of the Maritime Industry, 2022, Kay, A., Cahill, J., Howard, V. and Corrigan, S.
• Liston, P., Kay, A., Delemere,E., Karagiannidis, L., Veltsistas, P. Drakoulis, D., Amditis, A., Kostovasili, M., Acceptability & Usability of Location-Support Technologies for Cruise Ship Evacuations, 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, HCI International, on-line, 26th June - 1st July, 2022, 337 - 352 
• Liston, P., Kay, A., Delemere,E., Advancing a Social Licence to Operate for improved evacuation of cruise ships, Ergonomics & Human Factors 2022 International Conference, Birmingham UK, April, 2022
• McVeigh, J., MacLachlan, M., Cromie, S., Liston, P., Kavanagh, B., & Kay, A. (2022) 'Psychosocial and organisational aspects of work at sea and their implications for health and performance' In: Textbook of maritime health (3rd Ed.). Bergen : Norwegian Centre for Maritime and Diving Medicine.
• G. Lacey, J. Cahill, A. Kay, V. Howard, R. Harte, F. O’Reilly, E. Ziampra, F. Fitzpatrick, B. Mulcahy, S. George, R. Nolan, Safe PPE: User Need for an Interactive PPE Training Tool., Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, 6th International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC), Geneva, Switzerland, 14-17 September 2021, 10 P280, 1, 2021, 124 - 124 
• Cahill J, Kay A, Howard V., Mulcahy B, Forde, M., George S., Ziampra, E, Nolan, R. Fitzpatrick, F, & Lacey, G., Harte, R., O'Reilly, F., International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care., The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, Virtual/Online, 10, 1, April 12 to 16, 2021, Sage, 2021, pp. 157-164
• Ethical Issues in the New Digital Era: The Case of Assisting Driving, Ethics, Laws, and Policies for Privacy, Security, and Liability, London, UK, Intechopen, 2020, 1 - 30, Cahill, J., Cromie, S., Crowley, K, Kay, A., Gormley M, Kenny, E., Hermman, S, Doyle, C, Hever, A and Ross, R.
• Driver Persistence, Safety and Older Adult Self-efficacy: Addressing Driving Challenges Using Innovative Multimodal Communication Concepts, Kalra J., Lightner N. (eds), Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, Cham, 2020, 313 - 319, Cahill J., Cromie, S., Crowley, K, Kay, A., Gormley M, Kenny, E., Hermman, S, Doyle, C, Hever, A and Ross, R.
• Advancing a Human Factors & Ethics Canvas’ for New Driver Assistance Technologies Targeted at Older Adults, Duffy V. (eds), Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. Posture, Motion and Health. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12198, Springer, Cham, 2020, 503-520, Cahill, J., Cromie, S., Crowley, K, Kay, A., Gormley M, Kenny, E., Hermman, S, Doyle, C, Hever, A and Ross, R.
• Kay, A., Corrigan, S. and Cromie, S., Foreign Object Retention - Reduction and Mitigation, 5th World Congress on Patient Safety & Quality, June 22nd, 2020
• Alison Kay, Siobhán Corrigan, Katie O’Byrne & Sam Cromie, A Socio-Technical approach to Reducing & Mitigating the Risk of Retained Foreign Objects, South-Southwest Perioperative Conference, Cork University Hospital, Sept 14th, 2019., 14th September 2019
• Siobhán Corrigan, Alison Kay, Katie O’Byrne, Dubhfeasa Slattery, Sharon Sheehan, Nick McDonald, David Smyth, Ken Mealy and Sam Cromie, A Socio-Technical Exploration for Reducing & Mitigating the Risk of Retained Foreign Objects, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15, 2018
• Kay, A., O'Byrne K., Corrigan, S., Callari, T., Slattery, D., Smyth, T., Turner, M., Bennet, D. Logan, J. and Cromie, S., Development of an Observational Protocol for Reducing and Mitigating Workload and the Risk of Retained Foreign Objects, H-Workload 2018, the 2nd. international symposium on human mental workload, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 20-21 September,, Chiara Leva, Luca Longo, 2018, 154 – 176
• McDonald, N., Kay, A., Morrison, R., & Ryan, M., How Automation May Transform the Ways in Which Crew Manage Peak Workload and Incapacitation., 19th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology (ISAP 2017), Dayton, Ohio, 8-11 May 2017
• Transferring Learning Across Safety-Critical Industries, Malcolm MacLachlan, Maritime Psychology Research in Organizational & Health Behavior at Sea, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017, 49 - 68, Paul M. Liston, Alison Kay, Sam Cromie, Nick McDonald, Bill Kavanagh, Roddy Cooke, Peter Walter
• McDonald, N., Kay, A., Ryan, M., Morrison, R. & Zon, R., A validated description of how crew manage Flight operations for two-pilot and reduced crew operations, H-Workload 2017: The first international symposium on human mental workload, Dublin, 28-30 June, 2017
• McDonald, N., Kay, A.Liston, P., Morrison, R., and Ryan, M, An integrated Framework for Crew-Centric Flight Operations, 12th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics as part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, 2nd-7th August 2015, Don Harris, 2015
• De Looze, C., Brian Vaughan, B., Kelly, F. and Kay, A., Providing Objective Metrics of Team Communication Skills via Interpersonal Coordination Mechanisms, Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany, 6-10 September, 2015
• McDonald, N., Ward, M., Morrison, R., Corrigan, S., Leva, M.C., Cahill, J. & Kay, A., Systemic Human Factors for Ultra Safe Aviation, Irish Ergonomic Review, 2015 
• Corrigan, S. Martensson, L., Kay, A., McDonald, N., Implementing Collaborative Decision Making: Challenges & Recommendations., Journal of Cognition, Technology & Work, 17, 2, 2015, 207 – 218
• Corrigan, S., Martensson, L., Kay, A., Okwir, S., Ulfvengren, P. and McDonald, N., Preparing for Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) implementation: an evaluation and recommendations, Cognition, Technology and Work, 2014
• Kay, A., Liston, P. and Cromie, S.D., Measuring Crew Resource Management:, HCI International 2014, Crete, Greece, 22-27 June 2014, Don Harris, 2014 
• Monferini, A., Konstantinidou, M., Nivolianitou, Z.,Weber, S., Kontogiannis, T., Kafka, P., Kay, A., Leva, C. and Demichela, M,, A compound methodology to assess the impact of human and organizational factors impact on the risk level of hazardous industrial plants, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 119, 2013, 280 – 289
• Maritime Work: Psychosocial and organisational aspects of work at sea and their implications for health and performance, Carter. T. & Schreiner, A, Textbook of Maritime Medicine., Bergen, Norwegian Centre for Maritime Medicine., 2013, Malcolm MacLachlan, Sam Cromie, Paul Liston, Bill Kavanagh, and Alison Kay
• Liston, P., Kay, A., Cromie, S., Leva, C., D'Cruz, M., Patel, H., Langley, A., Sharples, S. and Aromaa, S., Evaluating the Iterative Development of VR/AR Human Factors Tools for Manual Work., 18th World Congress of Ergonomics, Recife, Brazil, February 12-16, 2012
• Liston, P., Kay, A., Cromie, S., Leva, M.C., D'Cruz, M., Patel, H., Langley, A., Sharples, S., and Aroma, S., Evaluating the iterative development of VR/AR human factors tools for manual work., Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation, 2012, 2208 – 2215
• MacLachlan, M., Kavanagh, B. and Kay, A., Maritime Health: A review with suggestions for research, International Maritime Health, 63, 1, 2012, 1 - 6 
• Liston, P., Cromie, S., Kay, A., Leva, C., D’Cruz, M., Patel, H., Langley, A., Sharples, S., Aromaa, S.,Vizzo, C., Evaluating a Modular Virtual Reality Platform for High-Skilled, High-Value Manual Tasks in Real Industrial Cases, Joint VR Conference of euroVR and EGVE, Nottingham, UK, September 20-21, 2011
• Leva, C., Kay, A., Smith T., Diez A., Azpiazu J., Liston, P. and Cromie S., The Use of Augmented Reality to Support Maintenance: Human Factors Issues and Advantages., Irish Ergonomics Society Annual Conference, June 2011
• Monferini, M. Konstandinidou, Z. Nivolianitou, S. Weber, T. Kontogiannis, P. Kafka, A.M. Kay, M.C. Leva, M. Demichela, Human & Organizational Factors impact on risk level in an NG treatment and storage plant, ESREL, Rhodes, Greece, 5-9 September, 2010
• Leva, C.; Liston, P.; Kay, A.; Cromie, S.; Krassi, B; Aromaa, S, Human Factors Methods in ManuVAR: A Contribution to Go beyond Leand and Agile Approaches, Proceedings Irish Ergonomics Society Annual Conference 2010, Irish Ergonomics Society Annual Conference 2010, Limerick, Oct. 2010, ISSN 1649-2102, 2010, 17 – 26
• Leva M.C., Kay, A., Cahill J, Losa G., & Mc Donald N, Collaborative prototyping in the development of an accident reporting form, Irish Egonomics Society, Annual Review, June, 2009
• M.C. Leva, A.M. Kay, F.Mattei, T. Kontogiannis,M. De Ambroggi, S.Cromie, Dynamic Task Representation Method for a Virtual Reality Application, HCI International, San Diego, U.S.A, July 19-24, 2009
• Rignér, J., Ulfvengren, P., Kay, A., Measuring safety performance - Strategic risk data, EASS, 21st annual European Aviation Safety Seminar, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 16-18, 2009 
• Rignér, J., Ulfvengren, P., Cooke, M., Leva, C. and Kay, A., Study of safety performance indicators and contributory factors as part of an airline systemic safety risk data model, 17th world congress on Ergonomics, IEA 2009, Bejing, China, 9-14 August, 2009
• M.C. Leva, J.Cahill, A.M.Kay, G.Losa, N.McDonald, The Advancement of New Human Factiors Report- 'The Unique Report' - Faciliating Flight Crew Auditing of Performance/Operations as part of an Airline's Safety Management system, Ergonomics, 2009 
• Leva M.C, Cahill, J., Kay, A., Losa, G. & Mc Donald, N., The Development of a Unique Report for Performance Monitoring in an Airline Safety Management System, Journal of the Safety and Reliability Society, 29, 4, 2009, 17 – 34
• M. Chiara Leva, J. Cahill, A. Kay, G. Losa, N. McDonald, The Development of a Unique Report for Performance Monitoring in an Airline Safety Management System, 18th AR2TS symposium, Loughborough, England, 21st - 23rd of April, 2009 
• Maria Chiara Leva, Alison Kay, Joan Cahill, Gabriel Losa, Sharon Keating, Diogo Serradas, and Nick McDonald, Unique Reporting Form: Flight Crew Auditing of Everyday Performance in an Airline Safety Management Syste, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5618, HCI 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 2009, Springer, 2009
• M.C. Leva, F. Mattei, A. Kay, S. Cromie, The Development of a Tool for Modelling Tasks in Safety Critical, Irish Ergonomic Society Annual Review, Dublin, June, 2009 
• M. Kay, M.C. Leva, S.D. Cromie, N. Solazzi, Competency Framework - A particular use in the technical domain, Psychological Society of Ireland/British Psychological Society joint annual conference, Dublin, April 4-8, 2008
• Case study in RAF Boeing E3D Sentry, Stanton, N.A., Baber, C. and Harris, D., Modelling Command and Control- event Analysis of Systematic Teamwork, Hampshire, UK, Ashgate, 2008, 157 - 180, Kay, A., Lowe, M., Salmon, P.S., Stewart, R., Tatlock, K. and Wells, L.
• Stewart, R.J., Stanton, N.A., Harris, D., Baber, C., Salmon, P., Mock, M., Tatlock, K., Wells, L. and Kay, A., Distributed Situational Awareness in Airborne Warning and Control Aircraft: application of a novel ergonomics methodology, Cognition, Techology and Work, 10, 2008, 221 – 229
• Lower, M., Kay, A.M., Thomas, L.J. and Muir, H., Localizable sound and its application in guiding passengers towards exits during aircraft evacuations, The Fourth Triennial International Aircraft Fire and Cabin Safety Research Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 15-18 November, 2004