Intelligent Infrastructure: User-centred Remote Condition Monitoring (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032521169)

Dr Nastaran Dadashi is a researcher, educator and a Chartered human factors specialist. She has a PhD in Human Factors (Future Railway Intelligent Infrastructure) from the University of Nottingham (Human Factors Research Group), where she worked as a research fellow. As a researcher, she applies human factors principles to a broad range of industries, including nuclear, health care, and the creative sector. As an educator, Nastaran works with digital experience designers at George Brown College, Canada (School of Design), to ensure that the next generation of digital innovations is accessible, ethical, and responsible.

Dr David Golightly is Lecturer in Human-Systems Integration within the Future Mobility Group, School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK. David is a Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Ergonomist, researching user-centred design for transport innovation and operations. This has included application of knowledge elicitation from experts for rail socio-technical systems modelling, and in the human aspects of operational safety and performance for transport systems. David has also applied knowledge elicitation and decision-making analyses in support accident and incident investigation, for manufacturing, and in hospital care co-ordination. Prior to his research career, David led commercial usability and user-centred design programmes at a global telecoms provider, and a FTSE100 fintech provider.

Professor Sarah Sharples is Professor of Human Factors at the University of Nottingham. From 2015-16 she was President of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. She is co-Editor of the Ergonomics and Human Factors text book 'Evaluation of Human Work: 4th edition'. In 2021 she was appointed as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Transport.

Richard Bye is Head of Ergonomics and Human Factors at Network Rail. With more than 15 years of hands-on human factors experience in the rail industry, he has been involved in a wide range of physical, cognitive and organisational ergonomics projects. Richard has worked on initiatives as diverse as the assurance of safety-critical operational processes, the introduction of smartphones and tablets for frontline track workers, the development of decision support tools for the railway's internet of things, and the implementation of new technology to increase the resilience of real-time rail operations.