Job Title
Assistant Professor (Human Factors)
Department
WMG
Email
Research Interests
Human Factors, Future Mobility, Human-machine Interaction, Micromobility, Autonomous Vehicles
Biography
Roger Woodman is an Assistant Professor and Human Factors research lead at WMG, University of Warwick. He received his PhD from Bristol Robotics Laboratory and has more than 20 years of experience working in industry and academia. Among his research interests, are self-driving vehicles, shared mobility, and human-machine interaction. He has several scientific papers published in the field of connected and autonomous vehicles. He lectures on the topic of Human Factors of Future Mobility and is the Co-Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training at WMG, training doctoral researchers in the areas of intelligent and electrified mobility systems.
Open Positions
Currently accepting applications for PhD students and Post-doctoral positions in the area of Human Factors.
Publications
Publications can be accessed via Warwick's Open Access page on WRAP. See also: External profile
- 'Perell?-March, Jaume R., 'Burns, Christopher, 'Woodman, Roger, 'Elliott, Mark T., 'Birrell, Stewart A., 2022. 'Driver state monitoring : manipulating reliability expectations in simulated automated driving scenarios. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23 (6), pp. 5187-5197
- Robinson, Jonathan, Smyth, Joseph, Woodman, Roger, Donzella, Valentina, 2021. Ethical considerations and moral implications of autonomous vehicles and unavoidable collisions. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science
- Smyth, Joseph, Chen, Hanlin, Donzella, Valentina, Woodman, Roger, 2021. Public acceptance of driver state monitoring for automated vehicles : applying the UTAUT framework. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 83, pp. 179-191
- Smyth, Joseph, Birrell, Stewart A., Woodman, Roger, Jennings, P. A. (Paul A.), 2021. Exploring the utility of EDA and skin temperature as individual physiological correlates of motion sickness. Applied Ergonomics, 92
- Dong, Ran, Woodman, Roger, Jennings, Paul. A., Brewerton, Simon, Birrell, Stewart A., Higgins, Matthew D., 2021. A simulation study of platooning AV fleet service in shared urban environments with uncertainties. Transportation Engineering, 4
- 'Sindi, Safaa, 'Woodman, Roger, 2021. 'Implementing commercial autonomous road haulage in freight operations : an industry perspective. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 152 (1), pp. 235-253
- 'Kampert, Erik, 'Schettler, Christoph, 'Woodman, Roger, 'Jennings, Paul A., 'Higgins, Matthew D., 2020. 'Millimeter-wave communication for a last-mile autonomous transport vehicle. IEEE Access, 8, pp. 8386-8392
- Woodman, Roger, Lu, Ke, Higgins, Matthew D., Brewerton, Simon, Jennings, Paul A., Birrell, Stewart A., 2019. Gap acceptance study of pedestrians crossing between platooning autonomous vehicles in a virtual environment. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 67, pp. 1-14
- Dogramadzi, Sanja, Giannaccini, Maria Elena, Harper, Christopher, Sobhani, Mohammad, Woodman, Roger, Choung, Jiyeon, 2014. Environmental hazard analysis - a variant of preliminary hazard analysis for autonomous mobile robots. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 76 (1), pp. 73-117
- Woodman, Roger, Winfield, Alan F. T., Harper, Chris, Fraser, Mike, 2012. Building safer robots : safety driven control. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 31 (13), pp. 1603-1626
- Smyth, Joseph, Robinson, Jonathan, Burridge, Rebecca, Jennings, Paul. A., Woodman, Roger, 2021. Towards the management and mitigation of motion sickness ? an update to the field. In Black, Nancy; Neumann, Patrick; Noy, Ian (eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021) : Volume III: Sector Based Ergonomics, Springer International Publishing, pp. 834-840
- Woodman, Roger, Winfield, Alan F. T., Harper, Chris, Fraser, Mike, 2011. Online hazard analysis for autonomous robots. In Groß, R.; Alboul, L.; Melhuish, C.; Witkowski, M.; Prescott, T. J.; Penders, J. (eds.), Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp. 406-407
- 'Dannier, Xiao, 'Geiger, William Goncalves, 'Hakan, Yekta Yatbaz, 'Dianati, Mehrdad, 'Woodman, Roger, 2022. 'Detecting hazardous events : a framework for automated vehicle safety systems. 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Macau, China, 8-12 Oct 2022
- Sindi, Safaa, Woodman, Roger, 2020. Autonomous goods vehicles for last-mile delivery : evaluation of impact and barriers. 23rd Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Virtual Conference, 20-23 Sep 2020, Published in 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
- Woodman, Roger, Hill, William D., Birrell, Stewart A., Higgins, Matthew D., 2019. An evolutionary approach to the optimisation of autonomous pod distribution for application in an urban transportation service. 2019 23rd International Conference on Mechatronics Technology (ICMT), Salerno, Italy, 23-26 Oct 2019, Published in 2019 23rd International Conference on Mechatronics Technology (ICMT), pp. 1-6
- Woodman, Roger, Lu, Ke, Higgins, Matthew D., Brewerton, Simon, Jennings, Paul. A., Birrell, Stewart A., 2019. A human factors approach to defining requirements for low-speed autonomous vehicles to enable intelligent platooning. 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 9-12 Jun 2019, Paris, France, pp. 2371-2376
- Woodman, Roger, Winfield, Alan, Harper, Chris, Fraser, Mike, 2010. Safety control architecture for personal robots : behaviouralsuppression with deliberative control. 2010 Seventh IARP Workshop on Technical Challenges for Dependable Robots in Human Environments (DRHE), Toulouse, France, 16-17 Jun 2010
- 'Kampert, Erik, 'Schettler, Christoph, 'Woodman, Roger, 'Jennings, Paul A., 'Higgins, Matthew D., 2020. 'Data for Millimeter-wave communication for a last-mileautonomous transport vehicle. Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick
| Title | Funder | Award start | Award end |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation of E-scooter Sounds to Support Blind and Partially Sighted People | Voi Technology Ltd | 15 Mar 2021 | 15 Sep 2022 |