Human Factors

How can we design products that are easy to learn, efficient to use and satisfying? Human factors psychologists work in design, research, training or usability departments in large organizations. In addition, they are employed by consulting firms and design firms. Current research projects focus on:

• Team training (Cooke)
• Driving, driver distraction, collision avoidance and accident analysis (Gray)
• Multi-sensory displays (Gray)
• Aviation, UAV, cockpit displays and flight simulators (Schvaneveldt, Gray, Cooke, Branaghan)
• Small screen displays for GPS and mobile phones (Sanchez and Branaghan)
• Cognitive models for language understanding and decision making in intelligent agents (Schvaneveldt)
• Pathfinder Network software (Schvaneveldt)