Simon Banbury

Affiliation

C3 Human Factors Consulting Inc

Biography

Simon Banbury received his B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Reading, United Kingdom in 1992, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Reading, United Kingdom in 1996. He also received his Postgraduate Certificate of Occupational Psychology from the British Psychological Society in 2004. He is a Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society). Simon has over twenty-five years of Human Factors Engineering consulting in defence, industrial and academic domains; he has worked as a Human Factors consultant in the defence and industrial sectors, a lecturer in Psychology at Cardiff University (U.K.), and a defence scientist for the United Kingdom’s Defence Evaluation and Research Agency. He has a broad experience of leading and managing multi-disciplinary R&D teams – working with project engineers and end-users to develop user-centred design requirements and specifications for user interfaces, workstations and control rooms across a range of defence and industrial applications. He also has extensive experience in planning and executing user testing and field trials to ensure the interaction between the user and the system meets the user-centred requirements. He has published widely in the field of Human Factors; including over fifty peer-review publications and three books.