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| Dr. Paul Green, UMTRI | ||
| Dr. Christopher Wickens, Alion Science and Technology | ||
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Human Factors Short Course |
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| Course Co-Leaders Dr. Paul Green - University of Michigan Instructional Staff Dr. Bruce Bradtmiller - Anthrotech, Inc. |
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Bruce Bradtmiller ANTHROTECH 503 Xenia Avenue Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 |
Phone: (937) 767-7226 Fax: (937) 767-9350 Email: Bruce@anthrotech.net |
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Dr. Bruce Bradtmiller, a physical anthropologist, is the owner and president of ANTHROTECH (formerly named Anthropology Research Project, Inc.), a small business engaged in the collection, analysis, and application of human body size data to ergonomics, design, and sizing problems. Since joining the firm in 1983 Dr. Bradtmiller has designed, conducted, and directed a number of military and civilian body size surveys and other anthropometric research projects. Currently he is conducting a pilot study concerning the fit of protective fall-harnesses for construction workers, in which traditional measurements and whole-body scans are being taken. Most recently he completed a nationwide school bus driver study in which 34 measurements were taken on 1500 drivers. Dr. Bradtmiller also designed and directed several three-dimensional head-and-face surveys, using computerized laser scanning techniques. ANTHROTECH recently completed a nationwide 3-D survey of children's heads for the Snively Foundation aimed at developing standard head forms for the bicycle industry. He served as lead investigator for the U.S. Army's landmark survey of 9,000 troops, and managed a variety of support projects for the U.S. Air Force. He also directed a study of luxury car buyers for Jaguar Cars Ltd. Dr. Bradtmiller is a specialist in glove sizing and design. Working with Midwest Quality Glove Co., and Arthur D. Little Co. in a series of protective handwear projects, he developed the techniques for creating sewn glove patterns from anthropometric data. The resulting gloves have been adopted by the U.S. Army and are being tested by the U.S. Navy. He served as a partner in the Defense Logistic Agency's Apparel Research Network and is a member of the SAE committee on human body modeling, which is studying the next generation of auto and aircraft seating. The author of many articles and technical reports, Dr. Bradtmiller received his Ph.D. and M.A. in anthropology from Northwestern University and his B.A. in anthropology from Indiana University. |
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Phone: (850) 644-6686 |
Neil Charness is a Professor in the Psychology Department at the Florida State University and an Associate in the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy at Florida State. He received his undergraduate honors BA degree in Psychology at McGill University in 1965, and his MSc (1971) and PhD (1974) in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. He was an assistant professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada from 1974-1977, Professor at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from 1977-1994, and joined the Psychology Department at Florida State University in 1994. Neil’s primary research interest concerns age and technology use. One area of concentration is in minimizing age differences in performance through selection of appropriate input and output devices. Neil’s other main research interest concerns age and expert performance. Neil has published over 85 journal articles and book chapters. Recent books include "Impact of Technology on Successful Aging" (co-edited with K. W. Schaie, 2003) and the 2004 book: "Designing for older adults: Principles and creative human factors approaches" which he co-authored with colleagues Fisk, Rogers, Czaja, and Sharit. Neil has served as editor for the Canadian Journal on Aging, Psychology section, and has served on the editorial boards of Psychology and Aging; Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences; Psychological Bulletin; and Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. He currently serves as Chairperson for the editorial board for the journal Gerontechnology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association’s Division 20, the American Psychological Society, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Gerontological Society of America (Behavioral and Social Sciences). He is President-Elect for Division 20, Adult Development and Aging, of the American Psychological Association. Neil is too busy traveling to assorted professional meetings at the moment
to have any spare time. However, some of the trips do allow visits to
his grandchildren in Kitchener, Canada and as a result he is becoming
more skilled at digital photography. When he retires he plans to take
up some of his prior hobbies: chess, bridge, and golf in addition to improving
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Paul Green University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) Human Factors Division 2901 Baxter Road Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2150 USA |
Phone: (734) 763-3795 Fax: (734) 764-1221 Email: PAGreen@umich.edu |
| URL: http://www.umich.edu/~driving | |
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Dr. Paul Green is a Senior Research Scientist in the Human Factors Division at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (Drexel University, 1972, Philadelphia, PA-where he grew up), and 3 degrees from the University of Michigan (M.S.E. - IOE - 1974; M.A. - Psychology - 1979; joint Ph.D. - IOE and Psychology - 1979). Paul has been an engineering staff member at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and a safety and health engineer for Scovill. At Michigan, he has also held appointments in the Department of Psychology and the School of Art (Industrial Design). His research has concerned driver workload, navigation system design, motor vehicle controls and displays, and person-computer interaction, research that makes extensive use of instrumented cars and a driving simulator. He was the lead author of the SAE recommended practices concerning navigation system design ("the 15-second rule") and design compliance calculations. He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Ergonomics Society, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the ITS-America Safety and Human Factors Committee, and other organizations. Paul will probably try to convince people to go sailing Saturday and possibly contra dancing that night. (Contra dancing resembles square dancing and has nothing to do with Nicaragua.) |
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Phone: (303) 492-6657 Fax: (303) 492-2844 Email: clayton@cs.colorado.edu |
| URL: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~clayton/Home.html | |
Clayton studied mathematics at Princeton (A.B. 1966) and MIT (M.S. 1968) before turning to experimental psychology at Michigan (Ph.D. 1978). The change grew out of his work at IBM Watson Research Center in the early seventies on the design of computer systems that would be easier to learn and use: at Watson he had been strongly influenced by John Gould and Lance Miller, two psychologist who were pioneers in bringing insights about cognition to bear on problems of systems design. After his Ph.D. studies (where Paul Green was a classmate and Dick Pew one of his teachers), Clayton returned to Watson and became Manager of Human Factors there. He and his colleagues did early work on methods for studying cognitive processes in computer use, playing a role in bringing the thinking aloud method out of university labs and into industry usability labs. In 1984 Clayton joined the Computer Science faculty in Boulder, where the Institute of Cognitive Science has facilitated many years of interdisciplinary collaboration with Peter Polson. Peter, Clayton, and their students have contributed to the development of cognitive models of computer use and associated design and evaluation methods, including the cognitive walkthrough and the related programming walkthrough. Clayton and his students have recently been applying these ideas to the development of computer supports for science learning by elementary school children. Clayton has twice served as Technical Program Chair for the ACM CHI conference on human factors in computing systems. Clayton retains an interest in math, especially math for kids; some of his thinking about this is at http://www.users.uswest.net/~lclayton1/mathetc.html. |
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Phone: (734) 763-0464 |
| URL: http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~yililiu/ | Yili Liu is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and M.S. in Computer Science, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught courses and conducted research on a variety of human factors topics, and has published numerous articles in both applied journals such as Ergonomics in Design and theoretical ones such as Psychological Review. He is the co-author of Introduction to Human Factors Engineering (with Wickens, Lee and Becker), a textbook used at several universities. While studying various specific theoretical and applied topics, a main theme of his current research is developing a queueing network based unified theory and computational model of the human mind and behavior. The theory/model attempts to possess seven attributes: 1) real world relevance (e.g., the model can now drive a car simulator, perform visual search and transcription typing); 2) an underlying mathematical structure (as a queueing network); 3) computational power (able to generate and simulate behavior in real time); 4) neural and psychological evidence (as a theory/model of the human mind, not of a machine); 5) broad coverage of both overt behavior and covert mental activities (e.g., mental workload is visualized as flow congestions inside the queueing mental network); 6) ability to unify or bridge existing theories and models; and 7) an easy-to-use interface for practitioners. Yili is also carrying out research on engineering aesthetics. He is a recipient of the College of Engineering Education Excellence
Award, College of Engineering Society of Women Engineers Teaching Excellence
Award (two time recipient), and Alpha Pi Mu Professor of the Year Award
(four time recipient). He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent
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Phone: (614)292-6670 |
| URL: http://biodynamics.osu.edu/ | |
William S. Marras holds the Honda Endowed Chair in Transportation in the Department of Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering at the Ohio State University. He is also the director of the Biodynamics Laboratory and holds joint appointments in the Departments of Physical Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering. Professor Marras is also the co-director of the Ohio State University Institute for Ergonomics. Dr. Marras received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering and Ergonomics from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is also a certified professional ergonomist (CPE). His research is centered around industrial biomechanics issues. Specifically, his research includes workplace biomechanical epidemiologic studies, laboratory biomechanic studies, mathematical modeling, and clinical studies of the back and wrist. His findings have been published in over 160 refereed journal articles and numerous book chapters. He also holds several patents including one for the lumbar motion monitor (LMM). Professor Marras has been selected by the National Academy of Sciences to serve on several committees investigating causality and musculoskeletal disorders. Dr. Marras’ work has also attracted national as well as international recognition. He is a two time winner (1993 and 2002) of the prestigious Swedish Volvo Award for Low Back Pain Research as well as Austria's Vienna Award for Physical Medicine and recently won the Liberty Mutual Prize for Injury Prevention Research. Recently he was awarded an honorary Dr. Sci. degree from the University of Waterloo for his work on the biomechanics of low back disorders. In his spare moments (which are few), Bill enjoys playing and listening
to music, sailing, and teaching his dog stupid pet tricks. |
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Dr. Pew holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University (1956), a master of arts degree in Psychology from Harvard University (1960) and a PhD in Psychology with a specialization in Engineering Psychology from The University of Michigan (1963). He has been at BBN Technologies since 1974 where he is a Principal Scientist. From 1976 to 1997 he was also Manager of the Cognitive Sciences and Systems Department. He is currently working part time for BBN. He has 35 years of experience in human factors, human performance and experimental psychology as they relate to systems design and development. Throughout his career he has been involved in the development and utilization of human performance models and in the conduct of experimental and field studies of human performance in applied settings. Before BBN, he spent 11 years on the faculty of the Psychology Department at Michigan where he was involved in human performance teaching, research and consulting.. The University created a Collegiate Chair in his name in 2002. He was the first Chairman of the National Research Council Committee on Human Factors, and has been President of the Human Factors Society and President of Division 21 of the American Psychological Assn., the division concerned with engineering psychology. He has also been chairman of the Biosciences Panel of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and was recently Chairman of the Soldier Systems Panel of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Advisory Board. In 1999 he was awarded the Arnold M. Small Distinguished Service Award of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society for career long contributions to the field and to the Society. He has been associated with this course for 44 years, originally as the Course Assistant to Dr. Paul Fitts, then as Course Chair or Co-Chair for 39 years. Dr. Pew has more than 70 publications as book chapters, articles and technical reports. In some of his spare time he is trying to learn to play the trumpet. |
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Nadine B. Sarter Dept of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 1205 Beal Ave. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2117 USA |
Phone: (734) 763-5773 Fax: (734) 764-3451 Email: sarter@umich.edu |
| URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sarter
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Voice: 217/244-8617 |
DR. CHRISTOPHER D. WICKENS is currently a Professor of Experimental Psychology,
Head of the Aviation Human Factors Division, and Associate Director of
the Institute of Aviation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He also holds an appointment in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial
Engineering and the Beckman Institute of Science and Technology. He received
his A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1967 and his Ph.D. from the University
of Michigan in 1974 and served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy
from 1969 to 1972. He is a Vietnam Veteran. His research interests involve
the application of the principles of human attention, perception and cognition
to modeling operator performance in complex environments, and to designing
displays to support that performance. Particular interest has focused
on aviation and air traffic control. In addition, Dr. Wickens has written and co-written 8 books, and published
over 170 book chapters or articles in peer refereed publications. |
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