2003/2004 Academic Year, Events:

04/26/04 - UIUC HFES Guest Speaker
                Dr. Patty Jones
                 "Human Factors Research at NASA Ames" and
                 "My Life as a NASA Project Manager"

  04/26/04 - Cognitive Systems Engineering Consortium Conference
                What is Cognitive Systems Engineering? What are the challenges?

Second Web Conference Date: April 26 at 10:30 am and again at 6:00 pm (Times are Eastern Standard, USA; GMT-05:00).

Dave Woods and Gavan Lintern
What is Cognitive Systems Engineering? What are the challenges?

For more information on the web conferencing, please see the description of the first CSEC web conference further up on this page.

  04/01/04 - Cognitive Systems Engineering Consortium Conference
                    Twenty years of Cognitive Task Analysis: What have we learned?

Web Conference Date: April 1 at 10:30 am and again at 6:00 pm (Times are Eastern Standard, USA; GMT-05:00).

Twenty years of Cognitive Task Analysis: What have we learned?
Gary Klein Klein, Assoc
Dayton OH USA

Abstract
One of the goals of Cognitive Systems Engineering is to support the cognitive processes of people who operate information technology applications such as decision support systems. This lecture examines three questions: … What types of cognition are we trying to support? … What do we know about these types of cognition? … How can we use Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) methods to learn what we need? The field of CTA has matured in the past 20 years. Initially it seemed a daring departure from controlled experimentation, and now it is a mainstay of many system design and training efforts. The lecture considers the current status of CTA methods that contribute to Cognitive Systems Engineering projects.

  04/01/04 - UIUC HFES Guest Speaker
                "Trust in automation: Neurology, sociology, and engineering"
                    Thursday, April 1, 5pm Beckman Institute Room 2269

John D. Lee
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at University of Iowa

  02/03/04 - From Research to Reality™
                   Application of Research to Workplace Safety

Wayne S. Maynard, CSP, CPE
Director-Ergonomics & Tribology
Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety

  Session Outline:

• Ergonomics and human factors: definition, myths, brief history and application to workplace safety.
• Managing safety: getting what you earn and safety practitioner role.
• From Research to Reality™: research and the product development process at Liberty Mutual.
• Application of research to workplace safety; specific examples:
  • HFACS (Wiegmann & Shappell)*.
  • Macroergonomics and safety; stress and mobile worker emerging issues.
  • Engineering anthropometry; machine safeguarding.
  • Occupational biomechanics; manual lifting, slips and falls.
  • Psychophysics; manual handling and upper extremity work.
  • Work physiology; whole body fatigue and update of “Garg’s Equations”.
  • Tribology; slips and falls and slipperiness assessment.
  • Application/discussion of HFACS to workplace safety and within Liberty Mutual Loss Prevention.

  11/06/03 - Executive Board Meeting 5:00 at Beckman Institute first floor
  10/29/03 - October Happy Hour 5:30 at Jillian's