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In the News


 

2008

  • Stephanie Guerlain presents at the National Academy of Engineering
     

  • Dave Bauer wins "Best Poster Award" at the NLM Medical Informatics Training Conference

    Dave Bauer wins "Best Poster Award" at the NLM Medical Informatics Training Conference for his poster, "How Physicians Perceive and Interpret Data Using Graphical and Tabular Displays", Washington, D.C. July, 08.

     

  • Ellen Bass promoted to Associate professor with tenure in August
     

  • Ben Shneiderman invited guest speaker, Thursday, April 25, 4:30pm

    "Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery"
     

  • Greg Gerling receives DARPA grant entitled "Enabling the Sense of Touch: Mimicking Responses from Single-Receptors and Optimizing Populations."

Dr. Greg  Gerling, PI, and Dr. Ellen Lumpkin (Baylor School of Medicine, Houston, Texas), Co-I, receive notice of award from DARPA for their proposal "Enabling the Sense of Touch: Mimicking Responses from Single-Receptors and Optimizing Populations."  Graduate students, Daine Lesniak and Matt Wagner, in particular, contributed.  The grant is for approximately $500,000 and will run for 2 years starting in June, 2008.

  • Stephanie Guerlain has been appointed Associate Editor in Chief for The IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A–Systems and Humans Machines
     

  • Ellen Bass was elected for the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (SMCS)
     

  • Ellen Bass is Program Chair Elect for the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making (CEDM) Technical Group of the HFES.
     

  • Justin DeVoge is co-winner of the UVa Dept of Systems and Information Engineering Louis T. Rader Outstanding Master's Student Award.
     

  • Justin and Matthew were recognized as student with honors from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Members.

 

2007

  • Greg Gerling receives grant for his prostate cancer simulation work

Dr. Greg  Gerling, PI, along with Dr. Reba Childress (Nursing) and Dr. Marcus Martin (Emergency Medicine) receive notice of award from the Congressional Directed Medical Research Program for their proposal "The Development of Prostate Palpation Skills through Simulation Training may Impact Early Detection of Prostate Abnormalities and Early Management." The grant is for approximately $391,000 and will run for 3 years starting in May, 2008.

  • Dr. Mark Scerbo gives invited lecture on Developments in Medical Modeling and Simulation

Mark W. Scerbo, Ph.D., Professor of Human Factors Psychology at Old Dominion University presented an invited seminar entitled DEVELOPMENTS IN MEDICAL MODELING AND SIMULATION, November 9, 2007. In his presentation, Dr. Scerbo described several key areas where human factors involvement is needed to facilitate the development and adoption of new modeling and simulation technology in healthcare training and discussed some of the work that is under way at Old Dominion University and the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC). Dr. Scerbo received his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1987 and worked at the AT&T Systems Evaluation Center in New Jersey from 1987 to 1990 where he introduced usability engineering to the Network Operations Division. He is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and received his Modeling and Simulation Professional Certification in 2002. He has over 25 years of experience researching and designing
systems and displays that improve user performance in academic, military, and industrial work environments. His current research interests are focused on user interaction with medical simulation technology. In addition, he has studied human factors issues related to the behavioral and physiological
factors that affect human interaction with virtual environments, automated systems, and adaptive interfaces.

 

2006

  • ERICA and Chris Lankford to be featured on ER

The ERICA (Eyegaze Response Interface Computer Aid) system will be featured in a February 2 episode of ER. Guest star James Woods, playing a patient suffering from ALS, will use the ERICA system to communicate throughout the show.  Eye Response Technologies chief technology officer and UVA grad Chris Lankford spent over a week on the set supporting the ER staff, controlling the equipment via a remote mouse and keyboard, and appearing for a moment as a hospital technician.  ERICA, originally developed at UVA by Professor Emeritus Thomas Hutchinson, gives computer access to persons with disabilities allowing complete control over the computer through eye movement alone. More on ERICA...

  • Matthew Bolton wins the UVa Dept of Systems and Information Engineering Louis T. Rader Outstanding Master's Student Award.
     

2005

  • Greg Gerling joins UVA faculty

UVA is pleased to announce the new hire of Gregory Gerling, Ph.D. candidate in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa.   For his Master's thesis, Greg developed a physical breast model that uses a balloon technique for training healthcare practitioners in breast cancer screening and holds several patents on this technique.   He has since become very interested in individual differences in the sense of touch.   For his Ph.D., he has developed finite element models of the human fingertip, and developed more accurate predictive models of human sensory capability in the fingertip than previously accepted theories.   Greg expects to complete his Ph.D. this summer and will join the UVA Systems and Information Engineering Department in Fall, 2005.   He is interested in the application of his theories to telerobotics and human-computer interaction.  See Greg's Iowa website for more information on his previous research.

  • Thomas Hutchinson to retire

The University of Virginia announces the retirement of the W.S. Calcott Professor of Systems and Information Engineering, Thomas E. Hutchinson.  Dr. Hutchinson will be moving to the College of Charleston, S.C. and holds a joint appointment at the Downing College of Cambridge, England.  He will remain affilliated with the University of Virginia as Professor Emeritus, and through the continued work of his company, Eye Response Technologies, located in Charlottesville, VA.

  • Matthew Bolton and Ellen Bass are developing CSEES

    Cognitive Systems Engineering Educational Software (CSEES) provides tutorials and hands on experience with cognitive systems engineering methods.  The notion is to promote inductive learning, experimentation, and inductive learning by supporting student participation in the generation, exploration, and analysis of human performance data.
     

  • Stephanie Guerlain recommended for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor

Pending approval at the University level, Professor Guerlain will be promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Summer, 2005.

  • Thomas Hutchinson spends sabbatical semester in Cambridge (Spring 2005)

Professor Hutchinson is conducting research using eye tracking technology to study autism in children.  Still and video images of facial features and simple animations of toys are used to discriminate autistic tendencies in children in this study from 6 weeks to 4 years.  A disturbing feature is that if positive intervention is not applied by 6 months severe regression and isolation to occur.  Thus the round the clock search for early diagnosis.

  • New HCI Lab space

Ellen Bass and Stephanie Guerlain are reconfiguring their lab spaces to better accommodate human-in-the-loop experiments.

  • Mike Smoot publishes paper

Ph.D. Candidate, Mike Smoot, advised by Bass and Guerlain, has a second paper accepted for publication.  It will appear in a special issue of Information Visualization and Bioinformatics

  • Michael Smoot wins of the UVa Dept of Systems and Information Engineering Louis T. Rader Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award.
     

 

2004

Jinhong is now a data analyst for Alphatec. Thesis

 

2003

  • Mike Smoot publishes his work related to bioinformatics visualization

Advised by E. Bass and S. Guerlain, Mike Smoot, Ph.D. candidate, has successfully published a paper in Bioinformatics

  • Missy Cummings successfully defends her Ph.D. Dissertation.

She is now the Boeing Assistant Professor in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at MIT.

  • J. Cushing, T. Shin, and H. Guo successfully defend Master's Theses

John is now an instructor at West Point Military Academy.  Thesis

Thomas is now a dental school student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hui is now a data analyst for comScore Inc.  Thesis

  • User Interface Prototypes turned into Honeywell product

Research conducted by S. Guerlain, G. Jamieson and P. Bullemer on how to visualize model-based predictive controllers has resulted in a product released as Profit Assistant for use by refineries and pulp and paper plants.

RATE is a software program written in Visual Basic which provides different methods to record and score team performance. It's similar to other observational scoring software, except that it allows you to explicitly score conversations and optionally synchronize the scores with up to 4 simultaneously playing digital video files.

  • STSL hosts Joanne Mallett of SurgTrain

Joanne Mallet, president of the non-profit surgery safety company, SurgTrain, spent a day visiting our Surgical Technology and Safety Laboratory. See write-up.

 

2002

  • Ellen Bass new Assistant Professor

We welcome Ellen Bass to the faculty. Her research interests are in aviation human factors, cognitive systems engineering, dynamic decision making, human-automation interaction, intelligent decision support systems, and intelligent learning environments.

Stephanie Guerlain was a panelist for the "Virginians Improving Patient Safety" conference, which hosted its second annual conference: Safe Health Care, Collaborating on Best Practices on May 29, 2002, Richmond, VA.

  • Drs. Guerlain and Calland Participated in  Annenberg Conference in Patient Safety

The conference focused on the role of communication in creating a blame-free health care culture that is accountable for patient care.

  • Mike Smoot returns from internship at TIGR

Mike Smoot just returned from his internship at The Institute for Genomic Research, where he developed a means to visualize genome or large sequence alignments.

 

2001

Rob Willis bests 17 other students at the 2001 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting for his Master's thesis research on developing an in-flight monitoring and control system for next-generation cruise missiles.

  • Capstone team wins Medical Systems Technical Group best paper at HFES 2001

Guerlain, LeBeau, Thompson, Donnelly, McClelland, Syverud and Calland win the HFES MSRTG best paper award for their work on redesigning abdominal pain workup forms in the emergency room.

  • Virginia Volk wins CRA Outstanding Undergraduate honorable mention for thesis

Volk (S. Guerlain technical advisor) won the honor for her thesis entitled "A Methodology for Training Older Adults to Use the Computer and Internet".

 

2000

Dr. Guerlain just received the NSF Career Award for a grant entitled "Cognitive Engineering of Surgical Work Processes".

  • ERICA System Used to Assist ALS Patient

The ERICA eye-tracking system is being used to assist ALS and autistic patients use Windows computers with the use of just their eyes.

  • Patient Safety Initiatives Get Off the Ground

Dr. Guerlain is coordinating with the Departments of Surgery and Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia to study and improve medical practices in the emergency room and operating room.