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Page updated July 16, 2009

 Human Factors Short Course Schedule for 2009

July 27 - August 7, 2009


Week 1: Human Factors Concepts
Monday, July 27
7:45 - 8:30   STAFF Registration (Fill out biographical form, 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 - 11:55   GREEN Collect Bio and Local Address Forms; Announce Workshops; Social Hour (handouts); Workshop Problem Description (handouts);
LUNCH   - - - - - -
1:00 - 2:30   GREEN 3. Visual Displays
BREAK   - - - - - -
2:45 - 4:15   LIU 4. Aesthetics Model for HCI Design
4:20 - 5:20   GREEN/WICKENS
ALTER/SCHWEITZER
Orientation
6:00 - 7:30   GREEN/WICKENS Social Hour (Meet at Holiday Inn-North Campus)

Tuesday, July 28
8:30 - 10:00   PEW 5. 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 6. Perception, Memory, and Cognition
LUNCH   - - - - - -
1:00 - 1:30   GREEN Demo: Survey Monkey/Google Forms
BREAK   - - - - - -
1:45 - 3:15   BRADTMILLER 7. Engineering Anthropometry
BREAK   - - - - - -
3:30 - 4:30   BRADTMILLER Seminar: Anthropometry
    GREEN Seminar: Symbols
    WICKENS Seminar: 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 the Industrial & Operations Engineering Building)

Wednesday, July 29
8:30 - 10:00   WICKENS 8. Skills, Motor Behavior, & Manual Controls
10:00 - 10:15   GREEN/WICKENS Seminar Selection; Address Corrections
BREAK   - - - - - -
10:30 - 12:00   MARRAS 9. Basic Occupational Biomechanics
LUNCH   - - - - - -
1:00 - 1:30   TBD - Humantech Demo: Risk Management Software
BREAK   - - - - - -
1:40 - 3:10   MARRAS 10. Upper Extremity Disorders
BREAK   - - - - - -
3:20 - 4:20   WICKENS Seminar: Psychophysics
    GREEN/
SCHWEITZER
Seminar: Prototyping Visual Basic
    PEW Seminar: Management of HF/HSI Groups
4:30 - 5:30   GREEN/WICKENS Workshop groups meet individually

Thursday, July 30
8:30 - 10:00   PEW 11. Situation Awareness
10:00 - 10:15   GREEN/WICKENS UMTRI Tour Overview (handouts), and Workshop Report Procedure
BREAK   - - - - - -
10:30 - 12:00   WICKENS 12. Advanced Displays
LUNCH   - - - - - -
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, July 31
8:30 - 10:00   GREEN 13. Workload
BREAK   - - - - - -
10:15 - 11:45   BOEHM-DAVIS 14. Decision Making & Cognitive Task Analysis
11:45 - 12:00   GREEN/BOEHM-DAVIS Extended Seminar Overview & Selection
LUNCH   - - - - - -
1:00 - 2:30   WIEGMANN 15. Human Error & Safety
BREAK   - - - - - -
2:50 - 4:50   GREEN/RASCHKE JACK (Windows Computer Room)
    BOEHM-DAVIS Extended Seminar: Cognitive Task Analysis

Saturday, August 1
8:30 - 10:00   GREEN 16. Manual / Nonmanual Task Analysis
BREAK   - - - - - -
10:15 - 11:45   BOEHM-DAVIS 17. Experimental Design and Analysis
11:45 - 12:00   GREEN Award Week 1 Certificates
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Week 2: Human-Computer Interaction
Monday, August 3
8:30 - 10:00   NEWMAN 18. Trends in HCI
10:00 - 10:15   GREEN Seminar Selection
BREAK   - - - - - -
10:30 - 12:00   ACKERMAN 19. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
LUNCH (GREEN Meets with New Students over Lunch)
1:15 - 2:15   GREEN Workshop: MORAE
BREAK   - - - - - -
2:30 - 4:00   LEWIS 20. Software Human Factors in the Product Development cycle
BREAK   - - - - - -
4:15 - 5:15   GREEN Seminar: Interface Design
    LEWIS Seminar: HF & Software Product Development

Tuesday, August 4
8:30 - 10:00   LEWIS 21. Methods for Evaluating User Interfaces
10:00 - 10:15   GREEN Seminar Selection & Picnic Overview
BREAK   - - - - - -
10:30 - 12:00   GREEN 22. Usability Testing
LUNCH   - - - - - -
1:00 - 1:30   GREEN Demo: CogTool
BREAK   - - - - - -
1:45 - 3:15   NEWMAN 23. Cost-Benefit Analysis for HCI
BREAK   - - - - - -
3:30 - 4:30   GREEN Seminar: Heuristic Evaluation of Web Sites (Mac)
    LEWIS Seminar: Cognitive Walkthrough
    NEWMAN Seminar: Cost-Benefit Analysis
5:30 - Dark   GREEN/LO
SCHWEITZER/ALTER
Picnic (Meet at Hudson-Mills Park)

Wednesday, August 5
8:30 - 10:00   GREEN 24. Introduction to the GOMS
10:00 - 10:05   GREEN CAVE Tour Description
BREAK   - - - - - -
10:20 - 12:00   GREEN Workshop: GOMS
LUNCH   - - - - - -
1:00 - 2:30   GREEN 25. Screen Design and Interface UI Widgets
BREAK   - - - - - -
2:45 - 5:15   GREEN/TBD Workshop: IMPRINT (Windows Computer Room)
7:15 - 8:45   GREEN/SCHUMANN Tour: CAVE (Meet at Duderstat Center)

Thursday, August 6
8:30 - 10:00   GREEN 26. Website Interface Design
10:00 - 10:15   GREEN Seminar Selection
BREAK   - - - - - -
10:30 - 12:00   SARTER 27. Automation
LUNCH   - - - - - -
1:00 - 1:30   GREEN/LO Demo: Suede
BREAK   - - - - - -
1:40 - 3:10   GREEN 28. Human Factors Considerations for Speech Interfaces
3:10 - 3:20   GREEN Award Certificates
BREAK   - - - - - -
3:35 - 4:35   GREEN Seminar: Speech Dialog Critique
    SARTER Seminar: Automation

Friday, August 7
8:30 - 10:00   CHARNESS 29. Inclusive Design
BREAK   - - - - - -
10:15- 11:45   GREEN 30. Responsibilities of the Usability Professional
LUNCH   - - - - - -
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