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In the News
2008
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Stephanie Guerlain
presents at the National Academy of Engineering
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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 in August
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Ben
Shneiderman invited guest speaker, Thursday, April 25, 4:30pm
"Information
Visualization for Knowledge Discovery"
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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.
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Stephanie
Guerlain has been appointed Associate Editor in Chief for The IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A–Systems
and Humans Machines
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Ellen
Bass was elected for the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (SMCS)
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Ellen
Bass is Program Chair Elect for the Cognitive Engineering and Decision
Making (CEDM) Technical Group of the HFES.
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Justin DeVoge is co-winner of the UVa Dept of Systems
and Information Engineering Louis T. Rader Outstanding Master's Student
Award.
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Justin and Matthew were recognized as student with
honors from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Members.
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.
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.
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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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