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Past Events
Dr. Justin Morgan -- Commercial Driver Training
Commercial Driver Training: Past Needs, Present Approaches, and Future Directions
November 3, 2011
Topic: Operating an 80,000 lb tractor-trailer on public roads surrounded by 3,000 lb automobiles would suggest that driver training is a critical aspect of licensure for commercial motor vehicle drivers. However, there are no current Federal standards or requirements for commercial motor vehicle training prior to a driver obtaining a commercial driver's license. A recent study conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute examined several issues in commercial driver training, including: if training makes a difference in driver performance, if simulation-based training can offer benefits in training, and if simulation-based approaches to driver testing are practical. The results are currently being examined by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in an effort to enact minimum training standards.
Speaker: Justin F. Morgan, Ph.D., is a researcher with the Center for Truck and Bus Safety at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute working on issues of human performance in driving. His recent research has involved several issues pertinent to commercial motor vehicles and their operations, such as the relationship between hours-of-service regulations, safety, and fatigue; social and new media health and wellness outreach methods; and the use of simulation-based approaches to driver training and testing. His current research includes examining the use of multimodal displays for advanced driver assistance systems and evaluating performance differences between simulator and real-world driving environments. Justin holds a doctorate from the University of Central Florida in Applied Experimental and Human Factors Psychology.
Dr. Jamye Hickman -- Finding your Sandbox: How I used Human Factors to develop products that people love
How does one use HF skills to become an entrepreneur?
October 13, 2011
Dr. Hickman, CEO of PupCentric, is the owner and lead designer of Pet Human Designs, LLC and Hickman Consulting. She related how she worked on various projects focused on user-centered design. One of her first projects was Blabstar, an online music exchange community run by Grammy nominated singer Janelle Monae and her music production team, Wondaland Productions. Dr. Hickman also designed her own innovative line of user-centered pet products in 2006, called PupCentric. Her dog, Zoe-Joe, was the motivation behind her first product, the E.B.D. Carry-all, a travel bag for all your dog's belongings. Her company motto says it all: Designed for pets, engineered for people.
Her innovative designs have won her design awards, as well as recognition as one of Rachael Ray's Favorite Things. Her devotion to canine-related charities has drawn national attention including functions at the Playboy Mansion and an interview with Oprah.
Dr. David Kaber -- Cognitive Ability & Situation Awareness While Driving
Ever wonder why the person in the car next to you just tried to come into your lane?
April 28, 2011
Dr. David Kaber from NC State gave us insights into his research looking into the behavior of drivers of various ages and abilities, under varying circumstances on urban and rural roads. He spoke about research in his lab with a fairly high-fidelity driving simulator that permits the study of cognitive ability and individual differences on situation awareness while driving.
Neil Ganey -- A Wild Ride: How Increasing Speed in High-Speed Craft Affects Human Operators
Seat design for water craft operation in rough seas!
January 20, 2011
As technological advances allow maritime craft to increase both the sea conditions that can be operated in, as well as the allowable speed of the craft while in those conditions, relatively little attention has been paid to the effects on the crew of the craft. The presenter discussed some of the challenges faced by the crews of high-speed craft (HSC), current knowledge in the area, trends and near-term work, as well as gaps in the knowledge.
Rob Hubal -- Fun with interactive dialog systems
Fun with interactive dialog systems: Studies involving conversations with little kids, surly teenagers, subject matter experts, telephone survey respondents, schizophrenics, clinic patients, impatient customers, and other regular people
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
For the past dozen years, a team at RTI has developed behavioral software and applications that enable synthetic characters to act and behave realistically in controlled learning contexts, for interaction skills training and assessment. Applications include training civilian police officers in how to handle encounters with mentally disturbed individuals, assessing medical practitioners in history taking for both asthmatic and pediatric patients, monitoring the transmission and verification of Intelligence information, and training telephone and field interview staff in obtaining respondent participation. Much of the research has involved carefully-designed interactive systems to enable natural flow and the eliciting or provision of necessary information between conversational partners. This presentation will address dialog design issues including coverage of content, consideration of social roles, biased reasoning, sensitive topics, and lexical and syntactic constraints.
Mark Molander -- User Experience at the IBM Bladecenter
February 4, 2010
Mark Molander, User Experience Architect for IBM System x and BladeCenter, discussed how usability and user experience have been supported and implemented in IBM's BladeCenter line of servers. He and the usability team described the various methods, UI designs, and user evaluations they have done since it's first concepts, initially driven by hardware human factors over 10 years ago. There have been many usability success stories, interesting situations and findings, and a lot of major challenges along the way. All user touchpoints of the user experience, such as hardware, software, information, web, etc. were addressed.
Dr. Anne McLaughlin -- Human Factors Needs in Farm Work: Ideas and Variables to Consider
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009.Tour of Sharon Harris Control Room Simulator
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009Lecture by Dr. Celeste Mayer -- Human Factors Challenges and Opportunities in Health Care
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009HFES Carolina Chapter Social at Hibernian Restaurant & Irish Pub
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009Invited Speaker - Dr. Richard Pak (Clemson University)
Date: Tue Jan 13, 2009Annual Holiday Party
Date: Dec 17, 2008Invited Speaker - Dr. Celestine Ntuen (NC A&T University)
Date: Nov 21, 2008Tour and overview of Ergonomics Center of North Carolina
Date: Oct 30, 2008NC State Alumni Dinner - HFES Annual Meeting
Date: Sept 22-26, 2008
Preview of Student Lectures for Annual Meeting
Date: Sept 15, 2008Dr. Younho Seong -- Supporting Human Judgment and Decision Making Performance - Trust Calibration with Decision Aids and Sensemaking
When: June 20, 2008, 11:30a-12:45pm
Where: HumanCentric
Professor Younho Seong of the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at NC A&T will give a presentation on his recent research on the effects of decision aid quality on user trust and performance in tactical applications.
This talk will emphasize the need to calibrate human trust in automated aids for effective performance (see abstract below).
This will be a "brown bag" seminar with refreshments served by the Carolina Chapter. Local and Student Chapter announcements will made from 11:30a-11:45. The presentation will run from 11:45a-12:30pm. This event will take place at HumanCentric's new location in Cary. (For directions, see http://www.humancentric.com/contact.php).
Abstract:
There is a rich history theoretically as well as empirically in the field of sociology on definitions and role of trust with its importance. Recently, there are also a few studies of trust in human machine interaction. Previous studies on trust in automated systems revealed that characteristics of automated systems affected human trust in the systems, which in turn impacted utilization of the systems. These studies provided a useful conceptual map existed between automated systems and human operators. However, none of these studies attempted to calibrate human trust so that automated systems could be better utilized. A better utilization of automated systems may lead to better performance in human judgment. Computerized decision aids are designed to support human operators' decision making activities in a variety of contexts including medicine, military command and control, and aviation industry. One common characteristic of these systems is of the role of the decision aid, integrating a variety of measured information to produce a simple form of more meaningful information that can be used to support human operators' judgment about environmental states of interest. When these aids malfunction, the decision makers may ignore the aid due to the lack of trust in the aid. This study examines the effect of automated decision aids of varying quality in producing environmental estimates, and investigates the effect of meta-information in supporting judgment performance of human operators' with the decision aids and calibrating human trust in such aids. A Lens Model based feedback is used to provide meta-information about the decision aid. An aircraft identification task is performed under varying conditions of aid quality and the presence of meta-information. Results show that performance, as well as assessments of trust in the aid, are affected by the decision aid's quality. More importantly, participants given with the meta-information performed significantly better than those without it. Results indicate that human operators can compensate for a poor performing aid when meta-information is available. Further, operators' trust was better calibrated corresponding to the decision aid's quality. In addition, a brief discussion of on-going project supported by Army Research Laboratory will be provided.
Spring Picnic - Saturday, May 3, 2008
The Carolina Chapter of HFES will be hosting a Spring Social event this year. The Chapter is inviting all regional student chapters (NC State, NC A&T and Clemson) to meet for a BBQ and soccer match to celebrate the completion of another semester, the 1st quarter, etc.
Time: 12:00-3:00pm
Location: Williams Park, 6601 Lead Mine Rd, Raleigh, NC 27612 (Google maps)
The BBQ at noon. The HFES Carolina Chapter will provide hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, buns, condiments, plates, utensils and charcoal. Members and friends are asked to bring a dish to pass, chips or sodas.
A student vs. local member soccer match will start at 1pm. The Carolina Chapter will bring the ball, cones and team sashes. The match will be refereed by a local certified soccer referee. Please join us to play on your team or pull for your favorite side!!
A Special Evening with Mica Endsley - Thursday April 10, 2008
Topic: Situation Awareness Oriented Design
Hi5 Restaurant, Raleigh, NC ( http://www.hi5raleigh.com/ )
The Carolina Chapter will host an informal talk by Mica Endsley and a buffet meal plus cash bar at Hi5 Restaurant. Dr. Endsley will speak on her current research on situation awareness in complex systems.
The evening event is open to all Carolina Chapter members and students and their guests. Your out-of-pocket meal costs are $15 per HFES Carolina member, $10/student, and $20/guest. The cost covers the meal charges only. All drinks must be purchased through the cash bar. Meal costs will be payable by cash or check at the door of the event. You will receive a name badge.
From the SA Technologies website: Dr. Mica Endsley is recognized as a pioneer and world leader in the study and application of situation awareness in advanced systems. The author of over 200 scientific articles and reports on situation awareness, Dr. Endsley's writing is often cited in professional journals. She is the co-author of Designing for Situation Awareness and speaks extensively at conferences. Dr. Endsley has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California. She is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) and Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE).
Mica Endsley - April 11, 2008
Title: Situation Awareness in Cognitive Modeling and Decision Support
Location: NCSU Daniels Hall 407
Time: 11:30-12:30
This event is co-sponsored by HFES Carolina Chapter, NCSU HFES student chapter, and the NCSU ISE department, and is open to all faculty, students and HFES members.
ABSTRACT for Fridays talk
Situation awareness is a fundamental construct driving human decision making in complex and dynamic environments. Several studies indicate that achieving adequate situation awareness is one of the most central and difficult portions of decision makers jobs in many domains. An examination of the underlying factors associated with situation awareness provides an integrated perspective for addressing system design issues. This perspective focuses on the means by which the human operator maintains an on-going representation of the state of the environment. To be effective, system designs, including decision support tools, must keep the operator at a high level of situation awareness, allowing for effective oversight and or interaction with the tools to achieve operational objectives.
In addition, an understanding of situation awareness provides new insights into the development of decision support tools and cognitive models. Criteria for computational models of SA will be discussed. Research that explores methods for eliciting and modeling human situational will be presented, as well as an approach to decision aiding that focuses on SA-oriented design.
Design Case Studies - March 27, 2008
Faculty from the College of Design at NCSU have graciously offered to give a collection of presentations next week at NCSU. They are interested in sharing their research and design ideas with the HFES community.
John Deere Turf Care - Plant Tour & Presentation
Thursday Feb 14th at 1:30 pm
Address:
John Deere Turf Care
5501 NC Highway 55, Fuquay Varina, NC 27526
Attire
Normal long pants, safety glasses & hearing protection. (Safety Glasses, toe caps & ear plugs will be supplied)
This will be a joint meeting of SME, IIE and HFES. SME arranged this tour and invited HFES and IIE (Thanks!)
Chris Wickens Talk - January 25, 2008
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