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Title: Department of Psychology


1
Department of Psychology
  • Human Factors Program

2
History of HF Program
  • Founded in 1980
  • Joel S. Warm
  • William N. Dember
  • Expand employment opportunities for Ph.D.s
  • Take advantage of military and industrial
    research funding

3
Current Faculty
  • Dr. Gerald Matthews
  • Human performance, stress, emotion, individual
    differences
  • Editorial boards
  • Emotion
  • Journal of Applied Experimental Psychology

4
Current Faculty
  • Dr. Michael Riley
  • Perception-action, postural control, motor
    control
  • Recently organized NSF workshop
  • Nonlinear methods in psychology
  • Editorial board
  • Journal of Motor Behavior

5
Current Faculty
  • Dr. Kevin Shockley
  • Haptic perception, dynamical approaches to
    cognition, interpersonal coordination, postural
    control, interlimb rhythmic coordination
  • NSF Panel on Perception, Action, Cognition

6
Current Faculty
  • Dr. Joel S. Warm
  • Sensation perception, sustained attention,
    neuroergonomics, stress performance, perceived
    mental workload
  • Member, National Research Council Committee on
    Human Factors
  • Editorial Boards
  • Human Factors
  • Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

7
Laboratory Facilities
  • Vigilance Research Laboratory
  • Drs. Matthews and Warm
  • Largest vigilance lab in U.S.
  • Funding 730,000
  • U.S. Army Medical Research Development Command,
    Multi University Research Initiative
  • Staff
  • Eight graduate students
  • Five undergraduates

8
Laboratory Facilities
  • Vigilance Research Laboratory, cont.
  • Current projects
  • Cerebral blood flow and vigilance performance
  • Performance prediction from blood flow and
    cortisol measures
  • Workload and stress of sustained attention
  • Training for vigilance

9
Laboratory Facilities
  • Vigilance Research Laboratory, cont.
  • Affiliations
  • Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB
  • George Mason University
  • Georgia State University
  • Meade-Johnson Corporation
  • Procter Gamble

10
Laboratory Facilities
  • Vigilance Research Laboratory, cont.
  • Affiliations, cont.
  • UC College of Applied Health Sciences
  • UC College of Engineering
  • UC College of Medicine
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Dayton
  • U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center

11
Laboratory Facilities
  • Emotional Intelligence Laboratory
  • Dr. Matthews
  • Funding 30,000
  • Procter Gamble
  • Staff
  • Two graduate students
  • Five undergraduates

12
Laboratory Facilities
  • Emotional Intelligence Laboratory, cont.
  • Current projects
  • EI and cognitive task performance
  • EI and terrorist identification
  • Affiliations
  • Educational Testing Center
  • Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
    (UNED), Spain
  • University of Haifa, Israel

13
Laboratory Facilities
  • Driving Simulation Laboratory
  • Dr. Matthews
  • Staff
  • Three graduate students
  • Four undergraduates
  • Current Projects
  • Fatigue and workload in simulated driving
  • Stress and automation in simulated winter drive

14
Laboratory Facilities
  • Perceptual-Motor Dynamics Lab
  • Drs. Riley and Shockley
  • Funding 401,000
  • NSF, USAMRAA
  • Staff
  • Six graduate students
  • Five undergraduates

15
Laboratory Facilities
  • Perceptual-Motor Dynamics Lab, cont.
  • Current projects
  • Haptic perception of heaviness
  • Postural control in Parkinsons disease
  • Postural control precision manual control
  • Interlimb rhythmic coordination

16
Laboratory Facilities
  • Perceptual-Motor Dynamics Lab, cont.
  • Current projects, cont.
  • Interpersonal postural synchrony
  • Stress workload in endoscopic surgery
  • Postural control cognitive activity
  • Perception of affordances
  • Proprioception

17
Laboratory Facilities
  • Perceptual-Motor Dynamics Lab, cont.
  • Affiliations
  • Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB
  • Arizona State University
  • Clemson University
  • Gordon College
  • Haskins Laboratories
  • Loyola University, Chicago

18
Laboratory Facilities
  • Perceptual-Motor Dynamics Lab, cont.
  • Affiliations, cont.
  • Procter Gamble
  • UC College of Engineering
  • UC College of Medicine
  • University of Alabama-Huntsville
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Minnesota

19
Graduate Curriculum
  • Basic Philosophy
  • Breadth and depth are crucial
  • Training Approaches
  • Blend of classical performance, workload stress
    (Matthews Warm)
  • Ecological approaches (Riley Shockley)

20
Graduate Curriculum
  • Fundamental Core Courses
  • Biopsychology
  • Cognition learning
  • History philosophy of psychology
  • Perception
  • Personality development
  • Social psychology

21
Graduate Curriculum
  • Research Methods in Psychology
  • Descriptive statistics probability
  • Inferential statistics
  • Modeling experimental data
  • Multivariate techniques
  • Experimental design
  • Psychological measurement

22
Graduate Curriculum
  • Human Factors Concentration
  • Year-long human factors seminar
  • Human performance information processing
  • Stress cognition
  • Year-long advanced perception seminar
  • Topics in perception-action seminar

23
Graduate Curriculum
  • Additional Course Opportunities
  • UC College of Engineering
  • UC College of Medicine
  • SOHFC Program
  • University of Dayton
  • Miami University
  • Training Opportunities
  • U.S. Air Force Research Lab, WPAFB
  • NIOSH
  • Penn State Motor Control Summer School
  • Procter Gamble
  • Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School

24
Student Achievements
  • Graduates
  • 32 Ph.D.s in 25 years
  • Employment
  • University-level teaching
  • Miami University
  • Michigan Tech
  • Old Dominion University
  • Otterbein College
  • Texas Tech
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of West Florida
  • University of Louisiana-Monroe
  • University of Alabama-Huntsville

25
Student Achievements
  • Government Service
  • NIOSH
  • Office of the U.S. Surgeon General
  • U.S. Air Force Operational Test Evaluation
    Center
  • U.S. Air Force Research Lab, WPAFB
  • U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake,
    Warminster, PA

26
Student Achievements
  • Medical Centers
  • UC Childrens Hospital Medical Center
  • UC University Hospital
  • University of Texas, Galveston
  • Industrial Placements
  • Aptima
  • Boeing
  • Citibank
  • IBM
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Whirlpool

27
Student Career Highlights
  • President of APA
  • Dr. Diane Halpern
  • Fellow of HFES
  • Dr. Mark Scerbo
  • Editorial Board, Human Factors
  • Dr. Robert Hoffman
  • Dr. Mark Scerbo

28
Student Career Highlights
  • NRC Committee on Human Factors
  • Dr. Kurt Kraiger
  • NRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship
  • Ami Becker
  • Tracy Galinsky
  • Ted Hitchcock

29
Student Career Highlights
  • Science Advisor to President Bush
  • Dr. James Griffin
  • Paul Fitts Award for Engineering Excellence
  • Dr. Todd Nelson
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