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Background
Dr James Blundell has a wide range of experience in the fields of clinical neuropsychology and human factors. His PhD work and early post-doctoral appointments at the University of Birmingham focused on establishing objective neuropsychological measures to serve as markers of degeneration in paediatric neurodegenerative diseases. James shifted his applied research focus to human factors in aviation when he joined Coventry University in 2017, where he led research on an Innovate UK project that investigated future flight deck technologies.
Research opportunities
Dr Blundell's primary area of interest is the design, development, and evaluation of multimodal displays – with an emphasis on the optimisation and synergy of head-up display (e.g. augmented reality) and haptic / tactile (e.g. force feedback / vibrotactile cuing) symbology. The application of the research predominantly resides within human-automation teaming (e.g. performance optimisation / system trust) across a range of transport domains.
In addition, he has an interest in operator fatigue and boredom, and how these concepts impinge on autonomous system interaction. With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, James expanded his research focus to cover the pandemic’s broad impact on the aviation sector, both in terms of passenger attitudes and well-being in aviation employees.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Kioulepoglou P, Chazapis S & Blundell J. (2024). A comparative analysis of job satisfaction among military and airline pilots: During, and post COVID-19. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 53
- Blundell J & Harris D. (2023). Designing augmented reality for future commercial aviation: a user-requirement analysis with commercial aviation pilots. Virtual Reality, 27(3)
- Blundell J, Collins C, Sears R, Plioutsias T, Huddlestone J, .... (2023). Low-visibility commercial ground operations: An objective and subjective evaluation of a multimodal display. The Aeronautical Journal, 127(1310)
- Blundell J, Collins C, Sears R, Plioutsias T, Huddlestone J, .... (2023). Multivariate Analysis of Gaze Behavior and Task Performance Within Interface Design Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 53(5)
- Kioulepoglou P & Blundell J. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on Job Satisfaction: The Case of Military and Airline Pilots. The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology, 32(4)
- Blundell J, Scott S, Harris D, Huddlestone J & Richards D. (2020). Workload benefits of colour coded head-up flight symbology during high workload flight. Displays, 65
- Blundell J, Scott S, Harris D, Huddlestone J & Richards D. (2020). With flying colours: Pilot performance with colour-coded head-up flight symbology. Displays, 61
- Clark R, Blundell J, Dunn MJ, Erichsen JT, Giardini ME, .... (2019). The potential and value of objective eye tracking in the ophthalmology clinic. Eye, 33(8)
- Blundell J, Frisson S, Chakrapani A, Gissen P, Hendriksz C, .... (2018). Oculomotor abnormalities in children with Niemann-Pick type C. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 123(2)
- Blundell J, Frisson S, Chakrapani A, Kearney S, Vijay S, .... (2018). Markers of cognitive function in individuals with metabolic disease: Morquio syndrome and tyrosinemia type III. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35(3-4)
- Blundell J, Kearney S, Gissen P, Hendriksz C, Vijay S, .... (2013). Measuring cognitive effects of metabolic disease using eye-movements. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 108(2)
- Blundell J, Kearney S, Horton J, Olson A & Chakrapani A. (2013). Visual attention in children with Morquio syndrome. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 108(2)
Conference Papers
- Pang Y & Blundell J. (2023). Embedding Resilience Attributes in Flight Deck Crews Using a Resilient Growth Model: A Dialogue with Chinese Airlines Pilots
- Conte S, Harris D & Blundell J. (2023). Evaluating the Impact of Passive Fatigue on Pilots Using Performance and Subjective States Measures
- Blundell J, Huddlestone J, Collins C, Scott S, Sears R, .... (2020). Envisioning Mixed Realities on the Flight Deck
Books
- Collins C, Blundell J, Huddlestone J & Harris D. (2023). A Helping Hand: Benefits of Primary Task Haptic Augmentation on Secondary Visuospatial Task Performance In HCI International 2023 – Late Breaking Papers (14054 LNCS). Springer Nature Switzerland.
- Blundell J, Huddlestone J, Scott S & Sears R. (2019). Flight Deck Optimization for a Future SESAR/NextGen Operating Environment In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (786). Springer International Publishing.
- Stedmon AW, Grant R, Harris D, Legg S, Scott S, .... (2019). Taking to the Skies: Developing a Dedicated MSc Course in Aviation Human Factors In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (821). Springer International Publishing.