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TransportSIG PD - Brains, Planes and Trains: 15 years of Designing Safety-Critical User Interfaces
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- Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia
- Start
- 20 March 2026 at 12:00 pm
- End
- 20 March 2026 at 1:00 pm
- Where
- zoom
About the Event
Join Ronan McInerney from Metro Trains Melbourne he discusses his 15-year career in the dark arts of user interface design, and the challenges of applying this Human Factors specialisation in complex integration projects that are often dominated by an engineering focus.
The presentation will introduce Ronan’s career journey and the skills he picked up along the way. This will be followed by some motivating case studies highlighting how poorly designed user interfaces led to disaster, as well as the psychology behind safe user interface design. Finally, Ronan will discuss some lessons learned from the Metro Tunnel Project and its implications for Human Factors.
When: Friday 20th March 12:00PM AEDT
Where: via zoom
Cost: Members - free; non-members $50; MOU affiliated societies $25 (please email secretariat@ergonomics.org.au with your MOU society and membership number for your discount code)
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