U of M Center for Professional Development

UMTRI - Human Factors Division

Course Overview
Description
Who Should Attend?
Registration
 
Course Schedule
Week 1
Week 2
Instructional Staff
 
Travel Information
Hotel
Transportation
What to Bring, etc.?
Weather and Attire
Spouses and Families
Advance Preparation
 
Contact Information
Course Co-Leaders
Dr. Paul Green, UMTRI
Dr. Christopher Wickens, Alion Science and Technology
 
Registration Information
Center for Professional Development
 
Past Course Class Photos
 
Page updated June 10, 2008
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Michigan Engineering's Center for Professional Development and UMTRI Present
Human Factors Short Course
Schedule for 2008

July 28 - August 8, 2008


 
  Week 1: Human Factors Concepts
 

 

  Monday, July 28
  7:30-8:30   STAFF Registration (fill out biographical form in notes, tent cards)
  8:30-10:00   GREEN 1. Introduction to Human Factors Engineering
  BREAK      
  10:15-11:45   WICKENS 2. Human Visual Functions
  11:45-12:00   GREEN Collect Bio and Local Address Forms; Announce Workshops;
  Social Hour (handouts); Workshop Problem Description (handouts);
  LUNCH      
  1:15-2:45   GREEN 3. Visual Displays
  BREAK      
  3:00-4:00   GREEN/WICKENS
LO/SCHWEITZER
Orientation
  6:00-7:30   GREEN/WICKENS Social Hour (meet at Holiday Inn-North Campus)
         
  Tuesday, July 29
  8:30-10:00   PEW 4. Introduction to Human-Systems Integration
  10:00-10:15   GREEN/WICKENS Workshop & Seminar Selection; CFE Tour Handout and Overview
  BREAK      
 
  10:30-12:00   WICKENS 5. Perception, Memory, and Cognition
  LUNCH      
  1:15-1:45   GREEN SurveyMonkey Demo or ?
  1:45-3:15   BRADTMILLER 6. Engineering Anthropometry
  BREAK      
        Seminars
  3:30-4:30   BRADTMILLER Anthropometry
      GREEN Symbols
      WICKENS Perception/cognition/memory
  4:40-5:45   GREEN/WICKENS a) All workshop groups together
        b) All groups, each problem together
        c) Workshop groups individually
  7:30-9:15   WOOLLEY/GREEN Tour: Center for Ergonomics
        (meet at Industrial & Operations Eng. Building)
 
  Wednesday, July 30
  8:30-10:00   WICKENS 7.Skills, Motor Behavior, & Manual Controls
  10:00-10:15   GREEN/WICKENS Seminar Selection; Address Corrections
  BREAK      
  10:30-12:00   MARRAS 8. Basic Occupational Biomechanics
  LUNCH      
  1:00-1:30   TBD - Humantech Risk Management Software
  1:30-3:00   MARRAS 9. Upper Extremity Disorders
  BREAK      
        Seminars
  3:15-4:15   WICKENS Psychophysics
      GREEN/SCHWEITZER Prototyping-Visual Basic
      PEW Management of HF/HSI groups
  4:25-5:30   GREEN/WICKENS Workshop groups meet individually
 
  Thursday, July 31
  8:30-10:00   PEW 10. Situation Awareness
  10:00-10:15   GREEN/WICKENS UMTRI Tour Overview (handouts), and Workshop Report Procedure
  BREAK      
  10:30-12:00   WICKENS 11. Advanced Displays
  LUNCH     Workshop groups meet individually.
  1:00-3:00   GREEN/WICKENS Workshop groups meet individually.
  BREAK      
  3:15-5:45   GREEN/WICKENS Workshop Reports
  8:00-10:00   GREEN/MANARY
SCHWEITZER/LO
Tour: Transportation Research Institute (meet at UMTRI)
 
  Friday, August 1
  8:30-10:00   GREEN 12. Workload
  BREAK      
  10:15-11:45   WICKENS 13. Decision Making & Cognitive Task Analysis
  11:45-11:50   GREEN/WICKENS Extended Seminar Overview
  LUNCH      
  1:00-1:30   STAFF Suede (or other) Demo
  1:30-3:00   WIEGMANN 14. Human Error & Safety
  BREAK      
        Extended Seminars
  3:15-5:00   WICKENS Cognitive Task Analysis
      GREEN/RASCHKE JACK
 
  Saturday, August 2
  8:30-10:00   GREEN 15. Manual Task Analysis-IE Methods
  BREAK      
  10:15-11:45   WICKENS 16. Experimental Design and Analysis
 

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  Week 2: Human-Computer Interaction
 
  Monday, August 4
  8:30-10:00   CZERWINSKI 17. Trends in HCI
  10:00-10:15   GREEN Seminar Selection
  BREAK      
  10:30-12:00   CZERWINSKI 18. Ubiquitous Computing and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
  LUNCH
  1:00-1:30   GREEN Convene New Students
  1:30-3:00   LEWIS 19. Software Human Factors in the Product Development cycle
  BREAK      
        Seminars
  3:15-4:15   GREEN Interface Design
      LEWIS HF & Software Product Development
      TBD tbd, Judy did politics of usability
 
  Tuesday, August 5
  8:30-10:00   LEWIS 20. Methods for Evaluating User Interfaces
  10:00-10:15   GREEN Workshop & Picnic Overview
  BREAK      
  10:30-12:00   GREEN 21. Usability Testing
  LUNCH      
  12:45-1:45   STAFF Using Morae to collect Usability Data
  1:50-3:20   NEWMAN 22. Cost-Benefit Analysis for HCI
        Seminars
  3:55-4:55   GREEN/WORREL Heuristic Evaluation of Web Sites (Mac)
      LEWIS Cognitive Walkthrough
      NEWMAN Cost-Benefit Analysis
  5:00-dark   GREEN/WORREL
SCHWEITZER/LO
Picnic (meet at Hudson-Mills Park)
 
  Wednesday, August 6
  8:30-10:00   GREEN 23. Introduction to the GOMS
  10:00-10:15   GREEN Seminar Selection, CAVE Tour Overview (handout)
  BREAK      
  10:30-12:00   GREEN 24. Screen Design and Interface UI Widgets
         
  LUNCH      
  1:00-1:30   GREEN HCI Video: Test Town, IBM, SGI, others
        Workshops
  1:30-4:30   GREEN GOMS
      TSIMHONI Use of Simulation Tools
  BREAK      
  7:00-8:30   GREEN/SCHUMANN Tour: CAVE (meet at Duderstat Center)
 
  Thursday, August 7
  8:30-10:00   GREEN 25. Interface Design for the World Wide Web
  10:00-10:15   GREEN Seminar Selection
  BREAK      
  10:30-12:00   SARTER 26.Automation
  LUNCH      
  1:00-1:30   GREEN/LO Demo: Speech(Tell Me) or Suede
  1:30-3:00   GREEN 27. Human Factors Considerations for Speech Interfaces
  BREAK      
        Seminars
  3:15-4:15   GREEN Speech Dialog Critique
      SARTER Automation
         
 
  Friday, August 8
  8:30-10:00   LIU 28.Aesthetics
  BREAK      
  10:15-11:45   FISK 29. Inclusive Design
  LUNCH      
  12:45-1:15   GREEN 30. Responsibilities of the Usability Professional
   
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