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Dr. Nora Balfe

Visiting Research Fellow (Psychology)

 balfen@tcd.ie

 


Research Tags

  Automation and Industrial Workers   Ergonomics   Human & Organisational Factors   HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION   Human Error   HUMAN FACTORS   Human Reliability Analysis   SOCIAL ASPECTS OF AUTOMATION

Research Projects

 Innovation through human factors in risk analysis and management

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

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Registered Member of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors
Member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Europe Chapter
Registered European Ergonomist
Bojana Bjegojevic, Maria Chiara Leva, Sam Cromie, Nora Balfe, Physiological Indicators for Real-Time Detection of Operator"s Attention, 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022), Dublin, 2022, edited by Maria Chiara Leva, Edoardo Patelli, Luca Podofillini, and Simon Wilson , Research Publishing, Singapore., 2022, pp3309 - 3316, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Leva, M.C., Naghdali, F., Balfe, N., Gerbec, M., De Michela, M., Remote risk assessment: A case study using SCOPE software, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 43, 2015, p1213-1218 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Balfe, N., Cromie, S., Organizational factor inclusion in Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) tools, Safety and Reliability: Methodology and Applications - Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2014, 2015, p1093-1100 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Balfe, N., Sharples, S., Wilson, J.R., Impact of automation: Measurement of performance, workload and behaviour in a complex control environment, Applied Ergonomics, 47, 2015, p52-64 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Leva, M.C., Kontogiannis, T., Balfe, N., Plot, E., Demichela, M., Human factors at the core of total safety management: The need to establish a common operational picture, Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2015, 2015, p163-170 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Naghdali, F., Leva, M.C., Cromie, S., Balfe, N., Assessment of available standards for risk assessment and human factors at design stage, Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2015, 2015, p51-58 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
The contribution of automation to resilience in rail traffic control in, editor(s)D. Harris , Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, Springer, 2014, pp458 - 469, [Ferreira, P.N.P., Balfe, N.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Builes, Y., Balfe, N., Leva, M.C., Douglas, E., Inclusive task analysis and risk assessment in high-risk industrial cleaning: A case study using SCOPE software, Irish Ergonomics Society Annual Conference 2014, Galway, Ireland, 16 May, 2014, Conference Paper, SUBMITTED
McDonnell, D., Balfe, N., Al-Dahidi, S., O'Donnell, G., Designing for human-centred decision support systems in PHM, European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2014, Nantes, France, 8-10 July 2014, 2014, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Farzad Naghdali*a, M. Chiara Leva, Nora Balfe, Samuel Cromie, Human Factors Engineering at Design Stage: Is There a Need for More Structured Guidelines and Standards?, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 36, 2014, p577 - 582, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
  

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Effects of level of signalling automation on workload and performance in, editor(s)J.R. Wilson, A. Mills, T. Clarke, J. Rajan, & N. Dadashi , Rail Human Factors around the World: Impacts on and of People for Successful Rail Operations, London, Taylor & Francis, 2012, pp404 - 411, [Balfe, N., Wilson, J.R., Sharples, S., & Clarke, T.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Signaller forms automation: The ultimate irony of automation in, editor(s)J.R. Wilson, A. Mills, T. Clarke, J. Rajan, & N. Dadashi , Rail Human Factors around the World: Impact on and of People of Successful Rail Operations, London, Taylor & Francis, 2012, pp383 - 392, [Balfe, N., Lowe, E., Abboud, R., Dadashi, Y., Bye, R., & Murphy, P.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Measuring situation awareness in rail signalling in, editor(s)J.R. Wilson, A. Mills, T. Clarke, J. Rajan, & N. Dadashi , Rail Human Factors around the World: Impacts on and of People for Successful Rail Operations, London, Taylor & Francis, 2012, pp361 - 369, [Golightly, D., Balfe, N., Sharples, S., & Lowe, E.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
The application of cognitive work analysis in rail in, editor(s)J.R. Wilson, A. Mills, T. Clarke, J. Rajan, & N. Dadashi , Rail Human Factors around the World: Impacts on and of People for Successful Rail Operations, London, Taylor & Francis, 2012, pp393 - 403, [Millen, L., Sharples, S., Golightly, D., & Balfe, N.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Understanding the impact of rail automation in, editor(s)D. Harris , Engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics, Heidelburg, Springer, 2009, pp590 - 599, [Sharples, S., Balfe, N., Golightly, D., & Millen, L.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Leva, C. & Balfe, N., Human factors and the management of change, Ergonomics and Human Factors 2013: Designing for People: Research and Practice, Cambridge, 15-18 April, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED