Associate Professor (Practice) Angela Tan
Research Lead (Workplace Safety), Behavioural Insights Centre of Excellence
2025 - Present
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore
2023 - Present
Associate Professor (Practice), Singapore University of Social Sciences
2020 - 2022
Programme Director, Human Factors and Human Performance Programmes, DSO National Laboratories
2017 - 2020
Dy Head, Soldier System Integration Laboratory, Singapore Army
2008 - 2017
Dy Programme Director, Human Factors Engineering Programme, DSO National Laboratories
2006 - 2008
Research Associate, Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics, Nanyang Technological University
2025
Best Paper award - 2025 International Conference on Human Factors Engineering and Interaction with AI Systems, Beijing
2018
Defence Technology Prize
2018
MINDEF PRIDE Award
2017
DSO KINETIC Award
2007
Flender Book Prize
2003
Lite-On Design Award
Tan, A. L. S., Yang, X.J. (in press)
Transparency and Trust in Human-Autonomy Interaction. In Helander's Compendium of Human Factors Engineering.
Yap, E.S.W., Tan, A. L. S, Seva, R.S., Lee, G. (2025)
Exploring the Integration of Human Factor Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), Fault Tree Analysis with Large Language Models (LLMs) for Accident Investigation. Paper presentation at 2025 International Conference on Human Factors Engineering and Interaction with AI Systems, Beijing
Tan, A. L. S., Chui, Y.P. (2025)
A Review of Competencies for Human Factors and Workplace Safety and Health. In: Jin, S., Kim, J.H., Kong, YK., Park, J., Yun, M.H. (eds) Proceedings of the 22nd Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, Volume 6. IEA 2024. Springer Series in Design and Innovation, vol 58. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-8904-0_10
Seva, R.S., Tan, A.L.S, Tejero, L.M.S. & Salvacion, M.L.D.S (2023)
Multi-dimensional readiness assessment of medical devices, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 24:2, 189-205
Lee, K.H., Chua, K.W.L., Koh, D.S.M., Tan, A.L.S. (2018)
Team cognitive walkthrough: fusing creativity and effectiveness for a novel operation. In Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds.) IEA 2018. AISC, vol. 824, pp. 117–126. Springer, Cham
Soo J.K.T., Tan A.L.S., Ho A.S.Y. (2016)
Naturalistic Human-Robot Interaction Design for Control of Unmanned Ground Vehicles. Poster presentation at HCI International.
Koh, D.S.M., Tee, H.G., Soh, B.K., Tan, A.L.S. (2015)
Tools for facilitating Critical Decision Method, during tacit knowledge elicitation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, McLean, VA
Tan, A. L. S. & Chia, A. (2014)
Examining Training Differences for Intelligence Analysis. Proceedings of the 3rd South East Asian Network of Ergonomics Societies International Conference.
Tan, A. L. S. (2011)
Use of the motivation-expectation space to communicate strategies in a joint cognitive system. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Tan, A. L. S., Helander, M. G., & Soh, B. K. (2010)
Motivation-Expectation Space as a Representative Structure for Decision Strategies. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 54(4), 334–338.
Tan, A. L. S., Helander, M., Choo, K. T. W., & Soh, B. K. (2010)
Cognitive task analysis for maritime collisions. In D. B. Kaber & G. Boy (Eds.), Advances in Cognitive Ergonomics. Bosa Roca, Fla: CRC Press.
Zhou, F., Tan, A. L. S., & Jiao, J. (2008)
Emergency logistics using graph theory and abstraction hierarchy. Paper presented at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology (ICMIT).
Yin S, Tan, A. L. S., & Helander M. (2008)
Proactive Process Control Monitoring using Trends. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.
Kow, Y. M., Tan, A. L. S., & Helander, M. G. (2007)
What stories inform us about the users? In D. Harris (Ed.), Engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics (Vol. 4562, pp. 89-97). Berlin: Springer.
Helander, M. G., & Tan, A. L. S. (2006)
Critical decision method: Is it cognitive work analysis? Proceedings of the 16th World Congress on Ergonomics (pp. 584). Maastricht, Netherlands.
Tan, A. L. S., & Helander, M. G. (2006)
Applied Work Domain Analysis: Translating Knowledge to Representation. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 50(3), 510–514.