David Strayer is a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at the University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign in 1989 and worked at GTE laboratories before joining the faculty at the University of Utah. Dr. Strayer’s research examines attention and multitasking in real-world contexts such as driving an automobile. He has published over 150 scholarly articles in this area and for over a decade has focused on understanding driver distraction stemming from voice-based interaction in the vehicle. Dr. Strayer is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society, the Psychonomic Society, and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences. In 2010, received the University of Utah Distinguished Scholarly and Creative Research Award.

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Associate Professor Samuel G. Charlton – University of Waikato, New Zealand

Associate Professor Charlton is Head of the School of Psychology at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. A member of the Traffic and Road Safety Research Group (TARS) for the past 20 years, his work has examined a range of road transport issues such as driver attentiveness and fatigue, drivers’ perceptions of risk, acute protracted error effects associated with alcohol, the effect of cell phones on driver performance, the conspicuity and comprehension of hazard warning signs, and the design of self-explaining roads. Samuel is also interested in driving as skilled behaviour, and how it can inform theory development in attention, decision-making, and automaticity of performance. For many years he was technical director of human factors and training analysis for the US Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center.

His work on human performance issues for the Global Positioning System, the Consolidated Space Operations Center, and other key projects earned him the US Air Force’s Exemplary Civilian Service Medal in 1993. In 2005 the NZ Automobile Association recognised his work in the area of driver behaviour by awarding it’s first-ever Research Excellence Award.

Associate Professor Teresa Senserrick – University of New South Wales, Australia

Professor Senserrick, PhD, is as an Associate Professor at Transport and Road Safety (TARS) Research, The University of New South Wales, Australia. Her training is in developmental psychology and she has more than two decades of local and international experience in health and safety research. Since focusing on road safety in 1999, she has become nationally and internationally renowned for her expertise in training, education and graduated licensing, particularly for young and novice drivers. Her work focuses on policy and practice relevant research and spans Australia, the United States and China. She has special interest in ensuring attention to issues for disadvantaged and vulnerable road users is not lost in the focus on mainstream research. This includes research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and current projects with novice motorcyclists.
A/Prof Senserrick has been supported by fellowships in Australia, including the National Health and Medical Research Council, as well as the National Safety Council in the United States. She is active on multiple local and international committees, including the Australasian Executive Committee of the Australasian College of Road Safety and inaugural member of the Transportation Research Board Young Driver Subcommittee. She is a member of the inaugural Advisory Council to Road Safety Education Australasia and member of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine Policy Committee. She is also an Associate Editor of the journal BMC Public Health and a reviewer for the leading journals in her field. She has over 200 publications in road safety, 60 invited addresses, participates widely in the media and community, and is active as a supervisor and mentor to multiple doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. A/Prof Senserrick completed her PhD in Behavioural Science at The University of Melbourne and her Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania.

Assistant Commissioner Mike Keating is a career police officer who joined the Queensland Police Service in 1978. During his career Mike has worked as a General Duties Police Officer, a Traffic Officer, in Education and Training, as a Supervising Commissioned Officer, a Staff Officer, a District Officer, Operations Coordinator and he is currently the Assistant Commissioner for the Road Policing Command. Mike was promoted to the rank of Inspector in 1996. Mike has served as District Officer in the Innisfail and Cairns Police Districts. He has been the Operations Coordinator in the former Far Northern and Northern Police Regions. In 2011 Mike completed an officer interchange program to the Queensland Reconstruction Authority following his appointment as the Director North Queensland. In this role he led the recovery and reconstruction programs across Northern Queensland. Road Policing Command commenced in July 2013. The Command provide the specialist road safety operational and strategic capability to the State.