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Conference Presentations
2019, 'A systematic review on close-following or short headways: Preliminary findings', presented at Australasian Road Safety Conference (ARSC2019), Adelaide, Australia, 25 September 2019 - 27 September 2019, https://acrs.org.au/files/papers/arsc/2019/JACRS-D-19-00206-Biswas.pdf
,2019, 'Management of queuing and waiting for truck drivers by road transport customers', presented at Australasian Road Safety Conference (ARSC2019), Adelaide, Australia, 25 September 2019 - 27 September 2019
,2018, 'The patterns of offences and demerit point accumulation in New Zealand 2005-2004', presented at 13th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (Safety 2018), Bangkok, Thailand, 05 November 2018 - 07 November 2018, http://www.worldsafety2018.org/program/program_details
,2018, 'Reality Check on the Road to Automated Vehicles', presented at Joint TARS, ACRS & NeuRA Seminar Automated Vehicles, Neuroscience Research Australia, 12 October 2018 - 12 October 2018
,2018, 'Assessing the combined effects of task factors and sleep need on driving', presented at 2018 Australasian Road Safety Conference, Sydney, Australia, 03 October 2018 - 05 October 2018
,2018, 'Road Safety in the Context of the Vehicle as a Workplace (Plenary)', presented at 2018 Australasian Road Safety Conference, Sydney, 03 October 2018 - 05 October 2018, http://acrs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/ARSC2018-Program-for-Website.pdf
,2018, 'Self-Driving Cars: Will they help?', presented at Royal Society Open Lecture (Royal Society of NSW Science Week), UNSW Sydney, 02 August 2018 - 02 August 2018
,2018, 'Development of automated vehicles needs Applied Psychology (Keynote Address)', presented at 29th International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP 2018), Montreal, Canada, 26 June 2018 - 30 June 2018, http://icap2018.com/division-section-invited-speakers#AnnWilliamson
,2018, 'Presentation to Comcare (Invited Address)', presented at Comcare Heavy Road Vehicle Industry Forum, Sydney, 30 May 2018 - 30 May 2018
,2018, 'Are Autonomous Vehicles Safe?', presented at Freehills Autonomous Vehicles Workshop, Sydney, NSW, 21 May 2018 - 21 May 2018
,2018, 'Fatigue Workshop', presented at HQPlantations Fatigue Workshop, Brisbane, QLD, 26 March 2018 - 26 March 2018
,2017, 'Strengthening the HFE discipline: Practice needs strong foundations', presented at Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia Conference (HFESA2017), University of Wollongong, NSW, 26 November 2017 - 29 November 2017, https://www.ergonomics.org.au/documents/item/403
,2017, 'Australian Naturalistic Driver Study (ANDS) of Distraction: Circumstances and Effects', presented at 2017 Australasian Road Safety Conference, Perth, Australia, 10 October 2017 - 12 October 2017
,2017, 'Australian Naturalistic Driving Study (ANDS): Providing new information on the circumstances and effects of distraction while driving', presented at 6th International Naturalistic Driving Research Symposium (NDRS2017), The Hague, The Netherlands, 08 June 2017 - 09 June 2017, http://ndrsymposium.com/programme-thursday-8-june/
,2017, 'Influencing parents’ behaviour regarding supervision of children', presented at NSW Water Safety Forum, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, 09 May 2017 - 09 May 2017
,2017, 'Can we convince tired drivers to take a break from driving?', presented at 10th International Conference on Managing Fatigue, San Diego, USA, 20 March 2017 - 23 March 2017, http://fatigueconference2017.com/materials/monday-am/countermeasures/Williamson.pdf
,2017, 'Wrestling with the competing priorities of fatigue risk management in transport: Protection, Payments, Productivity and Politics', presented at 10th International Conference on Managing Fatigue, San Diego, USA, 20 March 2017 - 23 March 2017, http://fatigueconference2017.com/materials/tuesday-am/keynote/Williamson.pdf
,2016, 'Pedestrian-Vehicle Interactions: Early Results From The Australian Naturalistic Driving Study (ANDS)', presented at 12th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (SAFETY 2016), Tampere, Finland, 18 September 2016 - 21 September 2016, https://www.thl.fi/documents/568266/2584241/SAFETY2016_FULL_PROGRAMMEBOOK_160909.pdf
,2016, 'Does the current Heavy Vehicle Law make us safer? (Invited Plenary)', presented at 2016 Australasian Road Safety Conference, Canberra, 06 September 2016 - 08 September 2016, http://acrs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/8AM_Williamson_A-16-9.pdf
,2016, 'The bumpy road towards automated vehicles: Can we smooth the path?', presented at 2016 Australasian Road Safety Conference, Canberra, 06 September 2016 - 08 September 2016, http://acrs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/ARSC2016-Draft-Program-for-WEBSITE.pdf
,2016, 'Progressing safety for heavy vehicles: The view from Australia', presented at Panel on Review of CSA Program of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration: US National Science Foundation, Interactive Webinar, 30 August 2016 - 30 August 2016
,2016, 'The Australian Naturalistic Driving Study (ANDS)', presented at 5th International Symposium on Naturalistic Driving Research, Blacksburg, VIrginia, 30 August 2016 - 01 September 2016, http://www.vtti.vt.edu/NDRS/agenda.html
,2016, 'Inconsistencies between research evidence and current approaches to fatigue management', presented at International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP2016), Brisbane, Australia, 02 August 2016 - 05 August 2016, https://icttp2016.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ICTTP-Program_FINAL.pdf
,2016, 'Why Mandatory Psychological Testing of All Young Novice Drivers is Unlikely to Reduce Crashes', presented at International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP2016), Brisbane, Australia, 02 August 2016 - 05 August 2016, https://icttp2016.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ICTTP-Program_FINAL.pdf
,2016, 'The Australian Naturalistic Driving Study (ANDS)', presented at 3rd Workshop on Naturalistic Driving Data Analytics, Gothenburg, Sweden, 19 June 2016 - 19 June 2016, http://iv2016.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Programme_and_abstracts_3rd-Workshop-on-Naturalistic-Driving-Data-Analytics_20160418.pdf
,2016, 'Effectiveness of Driver Assistance Systems', presented at Australasian Fleet Management Association: NSW Professional Development Fleet Forum, MGSM Conference Centre, Sydney, 08 March 2016 - 08 March 2016, http://www.afma.net.au/event/71
,2015, 'Effective fatigue risk management: Is it keeping up with the research evidence', presented at 9th International Conference on Managing Fatigue, Perth, WA, 23 March 2015 - 26 March 2015, http://www.fatigueconference2015.com.au/docs/Managing-Fatigue-2015-Conference-Program.pdf
,2015, 'The relationship between fluctuations in sleepiness and performance over a 2 hour drive', presented at 9th International Conference on Managing Fatigue, Perth, WA, 23 March 2015 - 26 March 2015, http://www.fatigueconference2015.com.au/docs/Managing-Fatigue-2015-Conference-Program.pdf
,2014, 'Road safety research into policy: What can we do to make it better?', presented at Road Safety Research Policing Education Conference, Melbourne, 12 November 2014 - 14 November 2014
,2014, 'Understanding why people make errors in skilled behaviour', presented at 11th International Symposium of the Australian Aviation Psychology Association, Richmond, Victoria, 10 November 2014 - 13 November 2014
,2014, 'Where Transport and Workplace Safety Meet: Balancing efficiency and safety for transport users and transport providers', presented at Occupational Safety in Transport Conference, Surfers Paradise Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 18 September 2014 - 19 September 2014, http://ositconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Ann_Williamson_abstract.pdf
,2014, 'To err is human…isn’t it?', presented at Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia, Annual General Meeting, Surry Hills, NSW, 21 August 2014 - 21 August 2014
,2014, 'An Australian perspective on hours of service, fatigue and highway safety', presented at US National Research Council, Panel on Research Methodologies and Statistical Approaches to Understanding Driver Fatigue Factors in Motor Carrier Safety and Driver Health, Washington D.C., 28 May 2014 - 29 May 2014, http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/meetingview.aspx?MeetingID=7291&MeetingNo=2
,2011, 'Calculating estimates of drowning morbidity and mortality adjusted for exposure to risk', presented at World Conference on Drowning Prevention, DaNang, Vietnam, 10 May 2011 - 13 May 2011
,2009, 'Examining population-based and person-time drowning risks in Australia', presented at 9th National Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, Melbourne, 26 July 2009 - 28 July 2009
,2009, 'Disentangling the relative effects of time of day and sleep deprivation on fatigue and performance', presented at 2009 International Conference on Fatigue Management in Transportation Operations, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 24 March 2009 - 26 March 2009
,2008, 'Development of an Evaluation Framework for Injury Surveillance Systems', presented at 9th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, Merida, Mexico, 15 March 2008 - 18 March 2008
,2008, 'Examining the burden of work-related hospitalised injuries in New South Wales, Australia', presented at 9th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, Merida, Mexico, 15 March 2008 - 18 March 2008
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