Dr. Simon Y. W. Li received his PhD from University College London and carried out his postdoctoral research at University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is a cognitive psychologist specialised in human-computer interaction/human factors. Broadly speaking, his research is focused on understanding the cognitive aspect of human interactive behavior in using technology. His current research interests include human error, interruption, patient safety, and decision making.  


Research | Top

1. Human Computer Interaction/Human Factors

2. Cognitive Engineering

3. Health/Medical Informatics

4. Human Error
   
   
5. Interruption
   
   
6. Decision Making

Publications : | Top

Journal Articles

Li, S. Y. W., Magrabi, F., & Coiera, E. (forthcoming) A systematic review of the psychological literature on interruption and its patient safety implications. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Magrabi, F., Li, S. Y. W., Dunn, A., & Coiera, E. (in press) Challenges in measuring the impact of interruption on patient safety and workflow outcomes. Methods of Information in Medicine.

Lau, A. Y. S., Siek, K. A., Fernandez-Luque,L., Tange, H., Chhanabhai, P., Li, S. Y. W., Elkin, P.L., Arjabi, A., Walczowski, L., Ang, C. S., & Eysenbach, G. (2011). The Role of Social Media for Patients and Consumer Health. The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 6 (1), 131-138

Magrabi, F., Li, S. Y. W., Day, R. O., & Coiera, E. (2010) Errors and electronic prescribing: a controlled laboratory study to examine task complexity and interruptions. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 17, 575-583.

Li, S. Y. W., Rakow, T. & Newell, B. R. (2009) Personal experience in doctor and patient decision making: from psychology to medicine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 15, 993–995.

Li, S. Y. W., Blandford, A., Cairns, P., & Young, R. M. (2008) The Effect of Interruptions on Post-completion and Other Procedural Errors: An Account Based on the Activation-Based Goal Memory Model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 14 (4), 314-328.

Conference Papers | Top

Magrabi, F., Li, S. Y. W., Dunn, A., & Coiera, E. (2010) Why is it so difficult to measure the effects of interruptions in healthcare? The 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics Medinfo 2010. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 160(Pt 1), 784-8. (3rd place in Best Paper Award)

Li, S. Y. W., Cox, A. L., Blandford, A., Cairns, P., Young, R. M., & Abeles, A. (2006). Further investigations into post-completion error: the effects of interruption position and duration. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Conference, pp. 471-476.

Li, S. Y. W. & Young, R. M. (2006). ACT-R ALMOST provides a formula predicting the rate of post-completion error. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACT-R Workshop.

Blandford, A., Back, J., Cuzon, P., Li, S. Y. W., & Ruksenas, R. (2006). Reasoning about human error by modeling cognition and interaction. In Proceedings of the 2nd Resilience Engineering Symposium.

Li, S. Y. W., Blandford, A., Cairns, P., & Young, R. M. (2005). Post-completion errors in problem solving. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Conference, pp. 1278-1283.

Hamer-Hodges, D., Li, S. Y. W. & Cairns, P. (2005). Cueing hyperlinks in auditory interfaces. In Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display.

Li S. Y. W., Myers, C. W., Schoelles, M. J., & Gray, W. D. (2003). Human Supervisory Control: A Cognitive Perspective. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Conference, pp. 1373.