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In the News
2008
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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.
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Ellen Bass promoted to
Associate professor with tenure, May, 08.
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Ben Shneiderman invited guest speaker, Thursday, April 25, 4:30pm
"Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery"
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Professor 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.
2007
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.
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
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...
2005
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Ellen Bass and Stephanie
Guerlain are reconfiguring their lab spaces to better accommodate
human-in-the-loop experiments.
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
2004
Jinhong is now a data analyst
for Alphatec.
Thesis
2003
Advised by E. Bass and S. Guerlain, Mike Smoot, Ph.D. candidate, has
successfully
published a paper in Bioinformatics
She is now the Boeing
Assistant Professor in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at
MIT.
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
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.
S. 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.
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