Department of Psychology

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Department of Psychology

• Human Factors Program

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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

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Current Faculty

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

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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

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Current Faculty

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

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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

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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

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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

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Laboratory Facilities

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

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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

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Laboratory Facilities

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

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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

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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

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Laboratory Facilities

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Graduate Curriculum

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

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Graduate Curriculum

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

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Graduate Curriculum

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Student Career Highlights

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

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Student Career Highlights

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