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C: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Pages 217-220

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From page 217...
... Army program called MANPRINT, which integrates manpower, personnel, training, system safety, health hazard assessment, and human factors into the system acquisition process in order to improve human performance, manpower utilization, and organizational effectiveness. Prior to joining Hay, he was the manager of the Human Systems Department of PRC Inc.
From page 218...
... During the last five years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he has been involved in developing the Department of Energy draft standards for human factors design methods; designing and testing tools to identify the risk factors that human operators and organizations bring to the disassembly of nuclear weapons; writing the human factors functional requirements for the next generation airport security checkpoints; and developing a human and organizational systems analytic basis for the Concept of Operations document that will be used to run the uranium enrichment plant being developed by the United States Enrichment Corporation. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D.
From page 219...
... From 1983 to 1989 he was assistant professor in the Departments of Safety Science and Human Factors at the University of Southern California. His current research concerns operator strategies in performance under time stress and the application of safety and human factors principles to the design and implementation of advanced transportation systems.
From page 220...
... Her previous work as a National Research Council senior staff officer includes studies of the scientific and technological challenges of virtual reality, emerging needs and opportunities for human factors research, modeling cost and performance of military enlistment, and others. For the past 25 years her work has concentrated on human factors, cognitive psychology, and information system design.


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