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Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Speakers
Pages 42-50

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... Previously, he founded and was the director of the Human Factors Research Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. His current experimental work concerns the evaluation of behavioral response to highstress conditions.
From page 43...
... His research specializes in sensation/perception, human performance, human factors, and perceived mental workload. His current interests include sustained attention in terms of test of theoretical models, studies of the psychophysical, psychophysiological, and training determinants of performance efficiency and the perceived mental workload of vigilance tasks.
From page 44...
... She conducts empirical team research in the context of the Cognitive Engineering Research on Team Tasks labs' unmanned aerial vehicle synthetic task environment. Recent projects involve modeling the acquisition and retention of team coordination using a dynamic systems approach and developing embedded measures of team cognition through automated communication analyses.
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... Prior to forming SA Technologies, she was a visiting associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and associate professor of industrial engineering at Texas Tech University. She is the author of numerous scientific articles and reports on subjects that include the implementation of technological change, the impact of automation, the design of expert system interfaces, new methods for knowledge elicitation for artificial intelligence system development, pilot decision making, and situation awareness.
From page 46...
... Christopher Miller is co-owner and principal scientist for Smart Information Flow Technologies, a small business focused on research and development in human interaction with advanced technologies. Its primary emphases have been on the development of a PlaybookTM approach to human interaction with robots and unmanned vehicles, as well as on the use and consideration of "etiquette" in the design of advanced human-machine systems.
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... Sheridan is Ford professor of engineering and applied psychology emeritus in both the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also senior transportation fellow at the U.S. Department of Transportations' Volpe National Transportation Research Center.
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... He was also president and is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and recipient of its Paul Fitts Education Award and the Arnold Small Distinguished Service Award. He is a fellow of the International Ergonomics Association and received the National Engineering Award of the American Association of Engineering Societies and the Oldenburger Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
From page 49...
... He has authored or coauthored numerous technical papers and journal articles, many of which describe large, international rover field trials sponsored by NASA and conducted in deserts around the world.
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... He has a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Michigan (1974)


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