Human Factors Journal Club
Archive of Past Meetings
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Fall 2011
Topic Area: Interruptions and Human Error
September 7, 2011 (Discussion Week)
Leading discussion: Dan Gartenberg
Memory for Goals: http://www.nrl.navy.mil/aic/iss/pubs/trafton.errors.iccm09.pdf
September 14, 2011 (Discussion Week)
Leading discussion: Nicole Werner
Boehm-Davis, D.A. & Remington, R. (2009). Reducing the disruptive effects of interruption: A cognitive framework for analysing the costs and benefits of intervention strategies. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 41, 1124-1129.
September 21, 2011
No meeting - HFES Conference
September 28, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Brian Falcone - Augmenting and Dissociating Verbal and Spatial Working Memory Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Dan Gartenberg - A Predictive Model of Time Critical Events Using Memory for Goals
Topic Area: User Interface Design
October 5, 2011 (Discussion)
Leading discussion: Cynthia Nyguen/Jane Barrow
Ziefle, M. (2002). The influence of user expertise and phone complexity on performance, ease of use, and learnability of different mobile phones. Behaviour & Information Technology, 21(5), 303-311.
October 12, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Jaris Oshiro - Examining the Role of Navigational Strategies in a Virtual 3D Environment
Christian Gonzalez - Applied Auditory Warning Design
October 19, 2011 (Discussion Week)
Leading discussion: Haneen Saqer
Nathan-Roberts, D., Kelly, J.C., & Liu, Y. (2011). Determining the effect of users' mobile phone on design preference via interactive genetic algorithms. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES: Santa Monica, CA.
October 26, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Dan Roberts - Event-Related Spectral Perturbation During a Working Memory Task
Andre Garcia - Multimodal Waypoint Navigation
Topic Area: Driving Research
November 2, 2011 (Discussion Week)
Leading discussion: Jesse Eisert
Strayer, D.L, Drews, F.A. & Crouch, D.J. (2006). A comparison of the cell phone driver and the drunk driver. Human Factors, 48(2), 381-391.
November 9, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Bobby Azarian - Facial Threat and Anxiety
Bridget Lewis - Subjective Alert Mapping: A Validation Study
November 14, 2011 (Discussion Week)
Leading discussion: Jane Barrow
Briggs, G.F., Hole, G.J., & Land, M.F. (2011). Emotionally involving telephone conversations lead to driver error and visual tunnelling. Transportation Research Part F, 14, 313-323.
November 23, 2011
No meeting - Thanksgiving
November 30, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Ryan McKendrik - TBA
TBA - TBA
Topic Area: Automation
December 12, 2011 Discussion Week
Discuss FAA Design Competition. Review 2007 submission - first link is to the EiD article, second link is the entire submission for the competition (very long, suggest you skim).
Squire, P.N., Barrow, J.H., Durkee, K.T., Smith, C., & Moore, J.C. (2010). RIMDAS: A proposed system for reducing runway incursions. Ergonomics in Design, Spring, 10-17.